In Poltava, the monument to Peter the Great was demolished.

It is specified that the decision to demolish was made by the city authorities. "Such a decision was made in accordance with the current legislation and the decolonization policy being implemented by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine," one of the Ukrainian TV channels reports. In addition, in Poltava, a memorial plaque dedicated to the writer and educator Anton Semenovich Makarenko was removed. It will be recalled that on February 20, it became known that the Poltava City Council decided to demolish all monuments dedicated to the victory of the Russian Empire in the Battle of Poltava. This concerns the monuments to Peter I near the Poltava Battle Field Reserve and at the resting place of the Russian emperor on the second day of the battle. Local authorities also planned to remove the information plaque on the monument to the fortress commandant Alexei Kelin.

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