Ukrainians in the eastern city of Kharkiv have felled one of its most prominent Russian symbols – a statue of Soviet icon Vladimir Lenin.
Groups of men scrambled onto the monument in the center square and carved the words “Glory to Ukraine” on it before sawing off the legs and pulling it down with cables.
“Glory to Ukraine” has been a battle cry used by Ukrainians to show their opposition to what they and the West see as Russia’s intervention in Ukraine through a staged separatist rebellion in the country’s east, preceded by Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.
Thousands of demonstrators cheered …read more
Source: Voice of America
