Kyiv on Thursday renamed one of its streets after John McCain, in a gesture of honor to the late U.S. senator who supported Ukraine’s pro-Western leadership in the standoff with Russia.
McCain, who died last year at age 81, backed Kyiv’s popular uprising which in 2014 ousted Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin president as well as supported sanctions over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko praised McCain, who was a frequent visitor to the country, as “a great friend and advocate of Ukraine.”
He noted McCain’s “historic importance” in building a “new independent Ukraine” during the meeting with his widow Cindy McCain on Monday …read more
Source: Voice of America
