The chief delegate from the Ukraine, Gennadi I. Udovenko - who in 1985 was just another East-bloc diplomat who zealously denounced the United States - these days calls himself a "Ukrainian patriot."

In June 17, 2011 in Vilnius, Lithuania there was a conference "Yevhen Konovalets: Lithuanian citizen - the Ukrainian patriot.

Svitlychna was praised by Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, who stated that "her views, the way she lived her life and passed along values to the next generation, have left footsteps to follow for millions of contemporary Ukrainian patriots."

Founding member and first president, Mr. Yevhen Liakhovych, an engineer by training and a Ukrainian patriot at heart, established the ODFFU to support the struggle for a free and independent Ukraine.

He considered himself a Ukrainian patriot as his father and grandfather had been before him.

A gunfight that stretched from dawn until night as the group who believed themselves to be Ukrainian patriots held out, without hope of rescue or reinforcement, against the encircling advance of Moscow's soldiers.

I'm Russian but my wife is Ukrainian and my kids, too, and my name is Ukrainian, and I'm a Ukrainian patriot after living here 25 years.

What Estonian or Ukrainian patriot would cede authority - and taxes - to Moscow in return for promises of borscht in every pot?

For example, last week we adopted a resolution on Ukraine, which included a provision that many Ukrainian patriots rightly find insulting to their national hero, Stepan Bandera.

Sviatoslav has long been a hero of Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian patriots due to his great military successes.