The 8-meter high sculpture will be demolished this week.
Arch of Friendship of Peoples in Kyiv will be renamed, said the city chairman Vitaliy Klitschko. In addition, a sculpture of two workers, symbolizing the “reunification of Ukraine with Russia” during the Soviet era, will be dismantled near the arch in the capital this week.
reunification of Ukraine with Russia “. Russia has “marked” its attitude to Ukraine with the brutal killings of peaceful Ukrainians, the destruction of our cities and towns, and the desire to destroy our statehood. “8 meters of metal of the so-called” friendship of the two peoples “will be removed from the center of Kyiv,” Klitschko said.
Klitschko explained that there is a more complicated procedure and it will take more time.
“And before that it can be used as a space for exhibitions. Let's rename the arch from titanium sheets – old symbols take on a new meaning! And we will highlight it with the colors of the Ukrainian flag, “Klitschko added.
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Earlier it was reported that in Ternopil At the same time, Uzhhorod residents are asking local authorities to de-Russify the names of streets and squares in the city . In particular, they want to rename the streets of Turgenev, Chekhov, Shishkin, Saltykov-Shchedrin and others.
