In Ternopil, work was carried out to dismantle the monument to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, according to the website of the Ternopil City Council. It is noted that this happened to fulfill the decision of the executive committee.

“The crimes of Russians against the Ukrainian people: murders, torture of people, rape of women and children, destruction of Ukrainian cities crossed out the entire culture of the Russian people. These crimes have no explanation. They leave us no choice. Everything Russian needs to be dismantled. Including a monument to a Russian writer,” said the mayor of Ternopil Serhiy Nadal.

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The monument to Pushkin was erected in Ternopil in the early 1960s in one of the squares in the central part of the city. After the Russian aggression in 2014, city residents began to take initiatives to demolish the monument.

Recall that residents of Uzhgorod are asking local authorities to de-Russify the names of streets and squares in the city. In particular, they want to rename the streets of Turgenev, Chekhov, Shishkin, Saltykov-Shchedrin and others.