Kiev, despite the ban to visit the Park in connection with the quarantining of coronavirus, bring flowers to the monuments in honor of the Victory Day, the police heavily guarded the public order, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmyhal stated that the mass actions on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in Ukraine will not be because of the threat of the spread of coronavirus, local authorities charged individually to congratulate the veterans. Parliamentary party "Opposition platform For life" stated that the Cabinet decision not to hold official celebrations on Victory Day is disrespectful to veterans and the memory of the exploits of his people.
As the correspondent of RIA Novosti, Kiev residents lay flowers to the Eternal flame in the Park of Glory. Quarter, which is a Park surrounded by police, streets blocked by metal fences. Militiamen check bags for banned items at all, who wants to go to the Park. Thus they ensure that citizens adhered to a distance of 1.5-2 meters, introduced the pandemic coronavirus and were not prohibited in Ukraine, symbols of the Soviet Union.
Periodically near monuments disinfection. Close to Park fire engines on standby and several detachments of mounted police, and in the Park the doctors of the red cross. In the Park miss no more than 10 people at a time.
Flowers at the Eternal Fire and laid, in particular, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from "the Opposition platform For life" Nestor Shufrych, Yuriy Boyko, Viktor Medvedchuk. In addition a wreath at the monument brought by the representatives of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra varaklyany Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Vadim Novinsky.
In Mariinsky Park, where there is a grave and monument to General Nikolai Vatutin, who in the years of the great Patriotic war he headed the liberation of the city on duty police, the police dialogue, and also cynologists with dogs. The Park entrances are sealed with tape, but this does not prevent the citizens, including politicians, to go to the Park and lay flowers.
Earlier, a monument to Vatutin repeatedly doused with paint. In October 2018, several dozen nationalists tried to carry, but they were prevented by the police. In November 2019, on the same monument is an inscription "Enemy".
The new head of the Ukrainian Institute of national memory Anton Drabovich said earlier that the monument to General Vatutin in Kiev could not be demolished because it is not just a monument, but the place of his burial. For this reason, this monument is not listed on the de-communization.
During the great Patriotic war Vatutin led the First Ukrainian front in the battle for the Dnieper and liberation of Kyiv. Vatutin monument is located in a Park near the Verkhovna Rada building in Kiev center.
With may 2015 the law of Ukraine "condemning Communist and Nazi regimes," prohibiting propaganda of Soviet symbols. It implies, in particular, the renaming of cities and streets named after Soviet statesmen. Institute of naramata published the list, which includes 520 historical figures whose activities are subject to the law "on the de-de", so their names should disappear from geographical names.
