Editor's note: The article was updated with additional information.The remains of 20th-century Ukrainian military leader Andrii Melnyk and his wife, Sofiia Fedak-Melnyk, were reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv on May 25.The ceremony, attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior political and cultural figures, comes less than a week after Melnyk's exhumation in Luxembourg for reburial in his homeland.Melnyk was one of the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a 20th-century organization that opposed both Soviet and Polish rule over Ukraine."Today we all see that the Ukrainian idea can overcome what once seemed absolutely insurmountable," Zelensky said, speaking at the event attended by Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Presidential Office head Kyrylo Budanov, and former President Viktor Yushchenko, among others."Now, when we are on Ukrainian soil, under our Ukrainian flag, to the sound of the Ukrainian national anthem, paying due tribute to our Ukrainian heroes, we feel in our hearts everything that Ukrainians were forced to go through, everything our people had to endure."As we were bringing Colonel Andriy Melnyk and his wife Sofia back to Ukraine – through Zakarpattia and then across half the country to our free capital, Kyiv – this path was not marked by the discord that had so often knocked us, and Ukraine, off our feet in the past. There were… pic.twitter.com/qXpsTeZkfR— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 25, 2026