Friends no longer, Ukraine removes Russian statues and street names

One village now has a Boris Johnson Street, though some say erasing the likes of Tolstoy is going too far

t 5.36 pm on Tuesday in the historic Kyiv district of Pecherskyi, an imposing Soviet-era bronze monument symbolising the friendship between Russia andwas accidentally decapitated and then deliberately dismantled to the applause of hundreds of people.

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