Monument to Lomonosov demolished in Dnepropetrovsk

In the city of Dnepropetrovsk, a monument to the Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov was dismantled, the Ukrainian publication Obshchestvennoye Novosti reports on January 6.

The sculpture was removed from the pedestal using special equipment. According to the publication, the monument will be taken to the territory of the utility company.

Earlier it was reported that a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov was demolished in Dnepropetrovsk. Also, the Ukrainian authorities demolished monuments to writer Maxim Gorky and pilot Valery Chkalov in Dnepropetrovsk.

Mayor of Dnepropetrovsk Boris Filatov said that all the monuments associated with Russia and the USSR will be transferred to the territory of the public utility “Zoocontrol”.

The demolition of monuments related to Soviet and Russian history, the authorities of Ukraine began in 2015 after the adoption of the law “On the condemnation of the communist and Nazi regimes.” With the start of the special operation, all the monuments associated with Russia were put under the bucket, regardless of the period. Recently, the monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator near Lvov and the monuments to Pushkin in Ananiev, Chernivtsi and Zhitomir have been demolished.

Also, representatives of the country arrange provocations against Russian art. For example, on December 7, Ukraine tried to disrupt the premiere of Boris Godunov, an opera by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, at La Scala theater in Milan.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Kyiv had been pursuing a policy of forced assimilation and aggressive de-Russification for many years. The Minister stressed that Russia wants to see Ukraine as a friendly one – without prohibitions on Russian culture and the Russian language.