On September 13, an electronic petition was registered on the website of the President of Ukraine with a request to initiate the renaming of the Donetsk region and move the regional center from Donetsk to Mariupol in the future.

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As the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, noted in turn, the initiators of the changes are the residents of Mariupol.

" It was only a matter of time. My personal and completely unofficial opinion is that this really should happen.. Mariupol reliably defended not just the borders of the region and the country. Mariupol at all phases of the war proved that this city is a pillar, a symbol of Ukraine in the East,” he wrote in his Telegram channel..

Andryushchenko himself proposes to rename the region in Azovsk to get rid of the Soviet narrative about the Donbass.

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Recall that the defense of Mariupol, which was almost immediately surrounded by Russian troops and mercilessly bombed by the invaders, lasted three months. After that, the top leadership of the state ordered the defenders of Mariupol to surrender.. According to preliminary agreements, everyone was to be exchanged to the Ukrainian side, but the Russian Federation did not keep its word. The fate of many defenders is still unknown, and some dismissed people speak of inhuman treatment and torture by the Russian invaders.