In late 2022, a map of Russia partitioned appeared in the office of Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, with the new borders drawn by hand. A couple weeks later, Budanov turned 37, and carved a birthday cake of the same map. His spokesman is a former coordinator of the Capitulation Resistance Movement.

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In mid‐April 2023, Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told ABC News that “the moment has come for this country [Russia] to collapse,” and the OUN‐B announced the revival of the ABN [under] the [euphemism] “Anti‐Imperial Bloc of Nations.” Meanwhile, Foreign Policy published an article that warned, “talk of Russian disintegration in Western capitals could raise nationalistic fervor and make Russians rally behind Putin.”

Oleh Medunytsia, predicting that “our activities within the ABN will lead to the collapse of Russia,” embarked for the United States, to tour the Ukrainian American community as the new OUN‐B leader, and participate in the next “PostRussia Forum,” which took place over four days in Washington, Philadelphia, and New York City. The Hudson Institute, the home of Trump’s former CIA director, hosted the DC portion of the event.

In Manhattan, the OUN‐B leader made the final speech of the conference (about reviving the ABN), and sat on a panel next to Austrian Twitter sensation Gunther Fehlinger, a clownish advocate for expanding NATO and dismembering Russia, China, and BRICS.

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Levus and Kryvdyk, longtime assistants to far‐right politician Andriy Parubiy, used to run an OUN‐B front called the “Ukrainian Strategic Initiative” with Oleh Medunytsia and Borys Potapenko from Michigan. Among other things, they arranged annual trips to Ukraine for Republican think tankers that tend to speak at conferences in Washington organized by Banderite leaders of the aforementioned “ODFFU, Inc.”

In September 2022, about a week after the “PostRussia Forum” got its new name, the Ukrainian Strategic Initiative officially joined Kyiv‐Mohyla Academy under the leadership of Ostap Kryvdyk, who is not necessarily an OUN‐B member. This NaUKMA think tank, which originated in an OUN‐B front, even has a “PostRussia department,” led by another Banderite coordinator of the Capitulation Resistance Movement, who addressed the European Congress of Ukrainians this year.

OUN‐B leader Oleh Medunytsia made it back just in time for another 150th anniversary Mikhnovsky memorial concert at the Lviv National Philharmonic Hall, which was organized by the Stepan Bandera National Revival Center. Medunytsia delivered the opening speech, followed by OUN‐B newspaper editor Viktor Roh.

Among the performers was Sofiya Fedyna, a nationalist member of parliament from the European Solidarity party. In 2019, Fedyna faced criminal charges after Zelensky made a tense visit to the frontline and she suggested that someone might kill the new president with a grenade.

To announce Ukraine’s much hyped 2023 counteroffensive, the commander‐in‐chief, Valerii Zaluzhny, released a high‐quality propaganda video starring the Svoboda Battalion in an élite brigade of the National Guard. “The time has come to take back what belongs to us,” he captioned the video in late May.

The OUN‐B has at least two highly placed members in the far‐right Svoboda party which created this unit. The head of political education is Yuriy Syrotiuk, and the chief ideologist is Oleksandr Sych, a former director of the Stepan Bandera National Revival Center.

As of this year, Syrotiuk is a vice president of the ABN. In 2015, he participated in clashes outside of the Ukrainian parliament building, and was arrested for “participating in mass disorder” after someone threw a grenade which killed several police officers and wounded “more than 140 people.” At that point, Svoboda was determined to stop parliament from granting autonomy to Donbass separatists as part of the Minsk peace process.

Last year, Syrotiuk posed with the OUN‐B newspaper as a grenade launcher operator in the 5th Assault Brigade. “The Irreversible Liquidation of the Russia Empire Has Begun,” or so he says, but what happens when Kyiv stops entertaining this fantasy?