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The article analyses the course and circumstances of the negotiations with local Nazi administration representatives which were conducted by UPA Bogun Detachment Сommander Porfyriy Antoniuk, alias Sosenko, Klishch. The main thesis of the article is that the negotiations themselves were not the reason due to which Sosenko was executed. Only because the Soviet government learned about Sosenko's connections with German administration and widely used this fact in its anti-UPA propaganda the UPA-North Group Command decided to sentence Sosenko to death as a demonstration.Contacts with UPA were initiated by the German side, who captured two insurgents from detachment as prisoners. There were three rounds of negotiations during December 1943 which took place in the rural area to the north of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi (German name Wladimir-Wolynsk). Ustilug Kreislandwirt Osten and Wladimir-Wolynsk Gebitslandwirt Ekhof offered to release prisoners and UPA in exchange should not prevent the occupiers from drawing food supplies from the countryside and stop diversions on railroads. On the other hand, Porfyriy Antoniuk in the capacity of the detachment commander issued demands for Nazi troops not to shell UPA units and Ukrainian villages near railway lines, not to persecute UPA soldiers' families, not to support Polish guerillas, and release Ukrainian prisoners.Both sides did not reach any agreement on the terms they issued to each other. Moreover, Sosenko himself did not attend the last, third, round of talks due to the restriction of the Volhynia Oblast Security Service of the Resistance. Despite Gebitslandwirt Ekhof's suggestions, the UPA side ceased all connection with Wladimir-Wolynsk Gebiet administration.But later the Soviet government used information about talks to discredit Ukrainian insurgents as "Nazi collaborators". In late January, 1944 the Soviet partisans defeated the Bogun Detachment and captured documents containing data about the contact with Germans. Nikita Khrushchev publicly stressed on Antoniuk's negotiations with Osten in the Soviet leaflet To so called UPA and UNRA participants (February, 12 1944) and his report on the 4th parliamentary session of the Supreme Soviet of the UkSSR (March, 1 1944). As a result, information about negotiations was widely disseminated throughout the republic.To avoid reputation losses the UPA North Group Command decided to court-martial Sosenko and executed him on March, 7 1944. This was an extraordinary measure due to aggravating circumstance, because it was not usually applied to such cases as negotiationswith Germans.So in this article I proved that negotiations between UPA Bogun Detachment and Kreisgebiet Wladimir-Wolynsk occupational administration in December 1943 were started by the German side. The insurgent command in the person of Porfyriy Antoniuk, alias Sosenko, Klishch, wanted to have the Ukrainian prisoners released and to protect the local Ukrainian population from the invaders' terror. But the talks deadlocked and Antoniuk did not have any further connections with Nazis. Neither was signed any agreement between UPA and Germans. Although, the Soviet authorities learned about the negotiations and used this information to discredit UPA as "Nazi collaborators" throughout the whole Ukraine. This was the main reason why the UPA North Group Command decided to make show trial and sentenced Antoniuk to death. ; У статті проаналізовано перебіг та обставини переговорів між представниками німецької окупаційної адміністрації Володимир-Волинського гебіту і командиром загону УПА ім. Богуна Порфирієм Антонюком у грудні 1943 р. Доведено, що ініціювала контакти саме німецька сторона. Предметом перемовин було припинення диверсій УПА на залізницях і не перешкоджання німцькій адміністрації збирати контингент в обмін на звільнення полонених повстанців і припинення терору проти цивільного населення. Проте сторони не досягли жодної угоди, а припинила переговори саме сторона УПА через заборону Служби безпеки ОУН. Радянський уряд, який пізніше дізнався про факт повстансько-німецьких переговорів, широко використав це у своїй пропаганді для дискредитації УПА як "нацистських колабораціоністів". Головна теза статті полягає в тому, що така репутаційна втрата була основною причиною засудження до страти військово-польовий судом УПА командира загону ім. Богуна П. Антонюка ("Сосенка").