Kyiv will dismantle a Soviet-era monument and rename streets linked to Russia

April 26, 2022
People walk in a city park around a Soviet-era monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2020.

The People's Friendship Arch was gifted to Ukraine by the Soviet government in the 1980s. Kyiv's mayor says the statue underneath is being dismantled, and the arch will be renamed and repainted.

(Image credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP)



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