In Odessa, unknown persons desecrated monuments to Pushkin and Prince Vorontsov

Unknown people have desecrated monuments to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and Count Mikhail Vorontsov in Odessa. This was reported on December 17 by the Ukrainian publication "Public. Odessa".

It is specified that the vandals left inscriptions on the monuments with the demand to dismantle the structures.

When these inscriptions were applied, it is unknown, noted in the edition.

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Earlier, on December 15, the former co-chairman of the Ukrainian party "Opposition Platform - For Life" (OPZZh) Verkhovna Rada deputy Yuriy Boyko said that more and more Ukrainian citizens support those who oppose the demolition of monuments, renaming of cities.

Before that, on December 6, a bust of twice Hero of the USSR partisan commander Sidor Kovpak was dismantled in Kiev's Park of Glory. Sidor Kovpak was one of the leaders of the partisan movement in Ukraine and the RSFSR during the Great Patriotic War.

The policy of so-called decolonization was a continuation of decommunization in Ukraine, which began in 2015 as part of the law "On Condemnation of Communist and Nazi Regimes". It prescribes demolishing monuments, dismantling memorial plaques, and renaming all topographical objects whose names are associated with the USSR or Russia. This policy became especially acute after the start of the Russian Federation's special operation to defend Donbass in February 2022.