Go to mediabankMonument to commander Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov in Izmail. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 28The city council of Izmail in the Odessa region decided to move the monument to the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov, the Ukrainian edition of Ukrinform reported. «The Izmail city council decided to move the monument to the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov. it says on the publication's website.Monuments to Ushakov and Suvorov were taken out of Kherson due to shellingIt is noted that the monument will be moved to one of the museums. one voted against the transfer of the monument. According to Ukrinform, local residents have repeatedly resorted to vandalism against the monument. In early August, Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the Odessa City Council with a request to consider a proposal to demolish the monument to Empress Catherine II. This appeal was published in response to a petition to demolish the monument to Catherine II in Odessa, as well as in response to a petition to replace the monument to the Empress with a monument to an American porn actor. Zelensky, in his response, also stated the need to work out the issue of «cleansing public space from objects and monuments relating to the Russian imperial and Soviet heritage» in the context of «protecting national interests.»
In Odessa, the memorials of Russian hero cities were covered with plastic bags. The monument to Catherine II as the founder of Odessa and her associates Joseph de Ribas, Franz de Volan, Grigory Potemkin and Platon Zubov was installed in the city in 1900. In 1920, it was already dismantled, but in 2007 it was restored again on Ekaterininskaya Square. Earlier, the authorities of the Kherson region announced the removal of monuments to Suvorov and Ushakov from Kherson, explaining that they could become targets for destruction by Ukrainian troops. The authorities promised to return them to their place after that. The process of decommunization in Ukraine was legalized by a whole package of laws that came into force on May 21, 2015. However, the current renaming has nothing to do with decommunization. Rather, these are actions for de-Russification, which is supported by the office of Vladimir Zalensky. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the Ukrainian authorities have 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. mother»
