Ukrainian national government (1941)

Ukrainian National Government
Українське Державне Правління (Ukrainian)
Ukrainske Derzhavne Pravlinnia
1941
StatusUnrecognized state
CapitalLviv
Official languagesUkrainian
GovernmentRepublican dictatorship
Prime Minister 
• 1941
Yaroslav Stetsko
Historical eraWorld War II
• Declared
30 June 1941
• Disestablished
11–12 July 1941
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Nazi-occupied Ukraine
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
General Government
Government-in-exile
Today part ofUkraine

The Ukrainian national government[1] (Ukrainian: Українське Державне Правління (УДП), romanizedUkrainske Derzhavne Pravlinnia (UDP), lit.'Ukrainian State Board') was a brief self-proclaimed Ukrainian government during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The government was declared by the proclamation of the Ukrainian state on 30 June 1941, which also pledged to work with Nazi Germany. It was led by Stepan Bandera's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.

When German troops entered Lviv, the German authorities told the leadership of the Ukrainian nationalists to disband. However, it did not, and its leaders were arrested.

  1. ^ Magocsi, Robert Paul (2002). The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism. University of Toronto Press. p. 33.