T-34 tank. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 22The Soviet T-34 tank in Zhitomir, Ukraine, is planned to be dismantled on May 9 from the pedestal on Victory Square, Mayor Sergei Sukhomlin said. we will move the tank from Victory Square,» Sukhomlin said in a video message on social networks. was legalized by a whole package of laws that came into force on May 21, 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian authorities had been pursuing a policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation for many years. He noted that Russia wants to see Ukraine as friendly, without a ban on the Russian language and Russian culture.
