The last monument to Lenin in Ukraine was dismantled in the Khmelnitsky region.

The bust of Vladimir Lenin in the village of Rudkovtsy in the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine, which remained the last monument to the first Soviet leader in the country, has been dismantled. This was reported on August 4 by the Ukrinform news agency.

It is noted that the monument to Lenin in Rudkovtsy was demolished by the local authorities after the appeal of a project promoting the idea of destroying the entire Soviet and Russian historical heritage in Ukraine.

The agency did not mention the further fate of the monument.

Earlier, on July 2, Svetlana Krivenko, chairman of the Berestinsky City Council of the Kharkiv region, announced that the monument to Pushkin, which was located next to the bust of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, had been dismantled in the city. According to the chairman, the monument was sent for storage to a local museum.

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