 On 25 September 2013 the city council of Kharkiv, after an appeal by the "Anti-Fascist Committee of Kharkiv", voted with 65 deputies for and four against (al four members of Batkivshchyna) that the memorial plaque to Shevelov in Kharkiv was placed there illegally.According to Mayor Hennadiy Kernes Shevelov "proved to be a Nazi henchman".Kharkiv Oblast Governor Mykhailo Dobkin suggested that Shevelov during World War II "took an apartment of a Jewish family which, most likely, was shot".