Video, which was published by an eyewitness of the night dismantling of the stele in the Friendship Square:
Apparently, the next stage is renaming the Friendship Square, or installing a stele dedicated to "friendship" with an entirely different state ...
Recall that in the recent elections in Kharkiv, the mayor of the city was defeated by the current mayor Gennady Kernes, who had previously served on the council of the “Party of Regions”. After winning the election, the mayor of Kharkov said that it was important for the city to maintain economic ties with Russia. Apparently, the presence of a stela in Kharkov preserved economic ties with the Russian Federation very much ...

Earlier in Kharkov, demolition activities concerned monuments to Lenin. Radicals took part in the demolition of monuments to Ilyich in several districts of the city.