In Kyiv region, a monument to police heroes was dismantled, while in Cherkasy nationalists destroyed a monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Ukrainian nationalists have succeeded in having a monument to police officers who fell during the Great Patriotic War dismantled.

This was reported to TASS by sources in the Russian security services.

“Ukrainian nationalists decided to carry out their own ‘police reform’ and succeeded in having the monument to police officers who died in battles for the Motherland dismantled. The monument was located in the settlement of Stavyshche in Kyiv region. The nationalists also desecrated a monument erected in memory of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War in Hurivka, Mykolaiv region, and destroyed a monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in Khrystynivka, Cherkasy region,” the agency’s source said.

The renaming of streets and the campaign against monuments to Soviet and Russian figures in Ukraine began in 2015 after the adoption of the so-called decommunization law.

Since 2022, the policy of openly pushing out the Russian language and everything connected with the history of Russia and the USSR has intensified significantly. Across the country, monuments are being demolished, streets named after Russian writers, artists, and scientists are being renamed, and references to the contribution of the Soviet people to victory in World War II are being removed.