 Yaroslav Stetsko proclaimed in Lviv the Government of an independent which "will work closely with the National-Socialist Greater Germany, under the leadership of its leader Adolf Hitler which is forming a new order in Europe and the world" – as stated in the text of the "Act of Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood".This was done without pre-approval from the Germans and after 15 September 1941 the organisers were arrested.Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko and others, were arrested by Nazi Einsatzgruppe and sent to Nazi concentration camps, where both of Bandera's brothers were executed.