A monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin has been dismantled in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, as reported by Dnipro Operative.
The mayor of the city, Boris Filatov, said that the monuments erected in Dnepropetrovsk, which is connected with Russia and the USSR, will be transferred to the territory of the Zoocontrol utility company.
Formerly in the city of Shepetovka, Khmelnitsky district of Ukraine ruined Monument to the writer Nikolai Ostrovsky.
The monument to the author was dismantled using a truck crane. On November 30, the head of the regional military administration, Sergei Gamaly, spoke about plans to dismantle the statue.
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936) – Soviet writer, author of the novel How Steel Was Tempered. Ostrovsky’s family moved to Shepetovka in 1913, where the writer spent his childhood and youth. In 1979, the Ostrovsky Museum was opened in Shepetovka. In 2020, its name was changed to the Propaganda Museum.
It was also reported in the Ukrainian Ananiev. ripped off Pushkin monument.