Ukrainian military man. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 21The monument to the Soviet soldier was demolished in the village of Verkhniy Yasenov, Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian edition «Strana.ua», citing an activist of the Ukrainian movement «Decommunization» Vadim Pozdnyakov. Incidents of vandalism in relation to Soviet monuments became more frequent after the start of the special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the situation with monuments to Soviet soldiers in Latvia and Lithuania, called what is happening «an international outrage.»
