Russia says it summoned Luxembourg envoy over exhumation of Ukrainian ‘Nazi collaborator’

MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it ​had summoned the ‌ambassador to Luxembourg to protest against the exhumation of the ‌remains ​of Andriy ⁠Melnyk, a ⁠Ukrainian nationalist leader during World War Two whom Moscow described ​as a “Nazi collaborator.”

Melnyk, who sided ⁠with Nazi ⁠Germany against the ​Soviet Union, was ​reburied with full state ‌honours with his wife near Kyiv on Monday after ⁠being exhumed in Luxembourg.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria ⁠Zakharova ‌said Moscow ⁠regarded the reburial ​as ‌a sign of ​disrespect ⁠towards the millions of victims of Nazi Germany.

(Reporting by Dmitry AntonovEditing by Andrew ​Osborn)