Roman Sushko

Roman Sushko
Roman Sushko
	Portrait, 1920.
Native name	Роман Сушко
Nicknames	'Sych' and 'Condrat'
Born	9 March 1894; Remeniv, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died	14 January 1944 (aged 49); Lviv, District of Galicia, Greater German Reich
Buried	Lychakiv Cemetery, Lviv
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary; Ukraine
Branch	Austro-Hungarian Army; Ukrainian People's Army; Wehrmacht Group South
Service years	1914–1916; 1918–1921; 1939
Rank	Colonel; Lieutenant; Captain
Unit	Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; Sich Riflemen; Bergbauernhilfe ("Ukrainian Legion")
Commands	Sich Riflemen; Bergbauernhilfe
Conflicts	First World War Eastern Front Battle of Makivka; ; ; Russian Civil War Ukrainian War of Independence Ukrainian–Soviet War Kiev Arsenal January Uprising; Second Winter Campaign; ; Anti-Hetman Uprising Battle of Motovylivka; ; ; ; Invasion of Poland OUN Uprising of 1939; ;
Other work	Politician, co-creator of the UVO and OUN

Roman Kyrylovych Sushko (Ukrainian: Роман Кирилович Сушко; 9 March 1894 – 12 January 1944) was a Ukrainian officer and politician who served on the Provid, or the leadership council, of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and later the Melnykite faction. He also cofounded its predecessor, the Ukrainian Military Organisation (UVO), and was a veteran of the First World War and the Ukrainian War of Independence, serving as a senior officer in the Sich Riflemen.

Sushko collaborated with the Nazis from 1938 whereby he commanded two battalions, codenamed Bergbauernhilfe, as part of the planned OUN Uprising of 1939 and played an instrumental role in establishing the Ukrainian Central Committee in occupied-Poland. In January 1944, he was assassinated in Lviv by unknown perpetrators.