It’s not just this author; Russian thinking on Ukraine is littered with references to Bandera. I addressed this briefly when I posted about the same “What Should We Do With Ukraine” essay yesterday.
That’s the key thing here, and it’s why Bandera is such a powerfully representative symbol in Russian thinking. You cannot have Ukrainian independence without Nazism. The one leads rapidly and inevitably to the other. For proof, just look at Bandera!
It’s deeply, offensively stupid and hateful, but hey, we’re talking about Russian political philosophy here, it comes with the territory. (Read up on Aleksandr Dugin, too, if you have the stomach.)
Edit to add: There is a good introduction to Dugin here, but you really need to dig deeper to see just how whacked-out the guy really is.