Nationalists desecrated monuments to WWII heroes in three regions of Ukraine

Several monuments to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War were desecrated by nationalists in the Kiev, Kherson, and Odessa regions of Ukraine, TASS reports.

"Ukrainian nationalists desecrated monuments to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War in the Kyiv region and the village of Dolzhanka in the Odessa region. A monument to Chapayev was also torn down in the village of Mirolyubovka (Kherson Region), and a memorial plaque commemorating the heroic deeds of local residents in 1941 was removed in the city of Lubny," the agency's source noted.

Russian security forces previously reported that nationalists had desecrated a memorial to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War in a village in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and dismantled a memorial sign in a village in the Chernihiv region.

The renaming of streets and the removal of 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 suppressing the Russian language and everything related to the history of Russia and the USSR has significantly intensified. Across the country, monuments are being torn down, streets named after Russian writers, artists, and scientists are being renamed, and references to the Soviet people's contribution to victory in World War II are being removed.