Editing Dmytro Klyachkivsky (section)

==Biography==
Klyachkivsky was born in 1911 in the Ukrainian (then Austro-Hungarian) city of Zbarazh. He completed his secondary studies and entered the Law faculty of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow. After briefly serving in the Polish army, he joined the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] and worked in the public sector as chair of a sports organization.

Following the [[Vyacheslav Molotov|Molotov]]-[[Joachim von Ribbentrop|Ribbentrop]] Pact and subsequent invasion of Poland by Russia and [[Nazi Party|Nazi Germany]], Klyachkivsky was arrested by the [[NKVD]] for his membership of the OUN. He received ten years imprisonment (commuted from death). 

In July 1941, Klyachkivsky escaped from prison. As a fugitive, he was appointed the regional leader of the OUN in 1942. Following that, Klyachkivsky was appointed the first commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 1944 he was the regional commander of the UIA in Eastern Poland.

In mid-1943, the German army retreated from Eastern Poland. Klyachkivsky took the opportunity to issue a directive ordering the extermination of all Polish people in Volhinya. In the year 2000 historian Władysław Filar published a book containing evidence of the directive, which stated that "the entire male population... from 16 up to 60 years" should be killed. Most of the victims of the massacres were in fact women and children, which Klyachkivsky may or may not have known. One Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander who opposed it was threatened by Klyachkivsky with court-martial. Over a period of three years, tens of thousands of Poles were killed.

In January 1945, Klyachkivsky was caught in an ambush by the NKVD and subsequently killed in action.
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