The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation sent a note of protest to Kiev. The document is connected with plans to dismantle a copy of the Soviet Order of World War II at the military memorial “Field of Mars” in Lvov.
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Russia demands from the Ukrainian side “to fulfill international obligations and norms of national legislation on the protection and preservation of military memorials.”
“We strongly condemn the course taken by the Ukrainian authorities to dismantle monuments to Soviet soldiers and the very memory of their feat in the fight against fascism. We call on the Ukrainian leadership to abandon the falsification of history and attempts to deprive Ukrainian citizens of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, achieved by the joint efforts of all peoples of the former Soviet Union.” – said in a statement by Russian diplomats.
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