Michal Apanasavič Vituška (Belarusian: Міхал Апанасавіч Вітушка; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Виту́шко, Mikhail Afanasyevich Vitushko; Polish: Michał Wituszka; 5 November 1907 – 7 January 1945)[1][2][3][4] was a Belarusian leader of the Black Cats, a unit of the SS-Jagdverbände, during World War II.

[1] Michal Apanasavič Vituška was born in the city of Nyasvizh in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) and studied in Belarusian gymnasiums in Kletsk and Vilnius.

As part of the Nazi effort to combat the growing Soviet partisan movement in Belarus during the war, some thirty Belarusians from the espionage and sabotage outfit known as "Čorny Kot" (Black Cat), led by Vituška, were airdropped by the Luftwaffe in late 1944 behind the lines of the Red Army.

[10] According to both western sources, such as the British MI6, and the Soviet MGB, agreed that Vituška was likely executed in January 1945, and that organised resistance in Belarus had ceased by 1946.

[11] Historian Andrej Kotljarchuk writes that Vituška is a popular figure for far-right and conservative circles of Belarusian youth.

The myth, according to which Vituška led an anti-Soviet partisan army in 1944–1959, was created by veterans in exile and reimported to Belarus after it gained independence in 1991.

[14] On 25 March 2014 members of the Young Front visited a demonstration with a banner, featuring Vituška along with Vincent Hadleŭski, Stepan Bandera, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz and Roman Shukhevych bearing the description: "Heroes do not die".