View of Lviv, Ukraine. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 16 Lviv Mayor Andrey Sadovoy said that the city plans to rename streets named after Russian figures. Earlier, more than 20 streets named after Russian writers, composers, scientists.» By my order, a commission has been created, which, together with professors, scientists, analyzes all the names of the streets that we need to correct. We always have a tradition in May on the day of the city to give new names or renames. And just this working group will finish its work by May and we will make a decision,» Sadovyi said in a comment posted on his Facebook page*. Earlier, according to Ukrainian media, an initiative group approached the Lviv authorities with a proposal to rename 30 streets named after Russian figures.
In the third city in Ukraine, a monument to Pushkin was dismantledRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 la. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist. Russia must do with Ukraine
