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The invasion of Ukraine generated an increased desire to remove such items, with 20 removed by August 2022 with 40 more scheduled for removal. [7] Ukraine. Ukraine had removed over 2,000 monuments to Russian communism by 2020 in accordance with the de-communism law of 2015, including 1,320 statues or busts of Lenin.
According to the Ukrainian Communist Party "a criminal case has been opened over the act of vandalism". [32] [33] Statue of Lenin: Kharkiv: 28 September 2014: Toppled and destroyed: Statue of Lenin Kherson: 7 February 2013 Destroyed [34] Statue of Lenin: Khmelnytskyi: 21 February 2014: Toppled [22] [29] [35] Statue of Lenin: Korosten: 5 October ...
Prior to 2022 Pushkin was the third most common historical figure represented in Ukraine's streetscapes. [1]Ukrainian researcher Volodymyr Yermolenko claimed that Russian literature has been a "vehicle of the country’s imperial project and nationalist world-view," giving as examples Pushkin, Lermontov and Gogol. [3]
It had been erected in 1946. On June 30, 2009, the nose of the statue and part of the left hand were destroyed. [14] [15] [16] The statue was restored (at the expense of the Communist Party of Ukraine) [17] and re-unveiled on November 27, 2009, by Petro Symonenko, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
The list of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a list of cultural sites in Ukraine that have been verified by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as damaged and/or destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (that started on 24 February 2022).
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with ...
The statue in the right is completely destroyed; nearby monument to WWII heroes (in the background) is partially destroyed. Another severely damaged city of Kharkiv region was Izium, where historical buildings, churches, memorials, as well as Polovtsian stone sculptures of 9th-13th centuries, were damaged or destroyed in the battle for the city.
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces destroyed a pontoon bridge and parts of Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video footage released by Ukraine's ...