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The Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional capital of east-central Ukraine, will remove and replace monuments to Russian and Soviet figures. City Animal ShelterBoris Filatov, head of the chamber, said on Tuesday.
In a Facebook post, Boris Filatov announced that the city council’s executive committee had decided to remove literary figures Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lomonosov and Maxim Gorky and other Russian and Soviet monuments without waiting for a decision from the Ministry of Culture. Personalities.
In the next few days, the statues will be removed and shifted to the corporation premises called “Zoocontrol”. Run a municipal kennel🇧🇷
“Let them go [estátuas] Stay there for now,” said the mayor of Dnipro.
This month, authorities in the city of Shebedivka, in the Khmelnytskyi region of central Ukraine, decided to remove a monument to Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky, known as the author.How steel is tempered🇧🇷
Meanwhile, in the city of Ismail in the southern part of the country’s Odessa region, a statue of Alexander Suvorov, a Russian general who took part in suppressing rebellions in the Russian Empire in the 17th century, was removed.
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