A monument to the Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin has been dismantled in Kramatorsk, the mayor of the city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region said on December 30. Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko published a photo of the bust of Pushkin being removed from a park by a backhoe. "Here is a place for our heroes, our culture and history. This is not a fight against monuments, this is Ukraine's fight for life," Honcharenko said on Facebook. Honcharenko said the bust will be temporarily stored in a city facility and its fate decided later. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.
Monument To Russian Poet Pushkin Removed In Ukraine's Kramatorsk
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