MOSCOW, December 3 Monument to Russian commander Alexander Suvorov in Nikolaev in southern Ukraine was doused with red paint, the local publication NikVesti reported.
«In Nikolaev, unknown persons poured red paint over the monument to the Russian commander Alexander Suvorov,» the article on the publication's website says.
Earlier, the monument to Suvorov was dismantled in the city of Izmail, Odessa region of Ukraine.
The dismantling of monuments related to Soviet history, as well as the renaming of streets, began in Ukraine in 2015, when a law on decommunization was adopted. Recently, the Ukrainian authorities have begun to fight not only with Soviet history, but with everything connected with Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has previously stated that the Ukrainian authorities have been pursuing a policy of aggressive de-Russification for many years and forced assimilation.