The defenders of Mykolaiv argue that this should not happen in the city they defend and which is currently held by the Southern Front.

TSN

correspondent Natalya Nagorna

told more about this .

The consequences of the Russian shelling in Mykolaiv are eliminated in a matter of hours - at the place of each arrival, utility workers immediately appear here, so that it is clean even where everything is in ruins.

Between the patriotic billboards, next to the rocket-damaged hotel, a healthy monument stands out...to a peasant.

It is here that Ilya from Mykolaiv makes an appointment for us.

He is a military man and now he hardly lives in his hometown.

Ilya is a historian by education, he studied in the Mykolaiv Mogilianka, which, by the way, was also destroyed by rockets.

The fighter is convinced that there should not be such monuments in his hometown.

"We need to end them, just as we need to end the post-truth era, when we call black white. An element absolutely hostile to the Ukrainian state, we remember what they were doing in 1917," he says.

This monument, along with 25 bas-reliefs and a bust, fall under the law on decommunization, but they stand.

The existence of this monument is justified by the fact that it supposedly honors the memory of fallen law enforcement officers.

The working version was a Bodonovite, that's what he was called, after the Bodonovite cap, this is not the image of a policeman, the image of a Bodonovite, a Red Army man who destroyed Ukrainian statehood.

But is it time to tear down the "Buddyman" now?

"And when is the time? There will never be a perfect time. Let's then honor all the executioners, all the murderers of our forefathers, because they were on monuments or in bas-reliefs," Ilya is indignant.



Mykolaiv Central Street.

On the bas-relief, there is another odious character - Grigoriy Potemkin, who allegedly founded the city, Oleksiy is indignant.

He himself is not from Mykolaiv, but he is fighting here.

Before the full-scale invasion, he was actively engaged in decommunization, because he is convinced that we must get rid of the colonial legacy.

"This is the oldest city that is mentioned in written sources, what is the relation of Hrytsko nechesaney to the city of Mykolaiv, namely to its foundation, if this place was 1000 years before his birth. People have always lived here, this is the chatsyn of an invented story that began to create empress Kateryna," emphasizes Oleksiy.

There is a bas-relief on Shevchenko Street, but not to the Ukrainian Kobzar, but to Oleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin.

The memorial plaque informs that once upon a time there was a house on this spot and here Pushkin was changed horses.

Oleksiy convinces, it is even humiliating to commemorate such an event.

At the same time, some locals are against the demolition of the Pushkin monument.

They say that the biggest threat to the city is not from him, but from collaborators.

Meanwhile, Oleksiy promises that if the local authorities do not remove "Soviet and imperial monuments" in the near future, the military will have to withdraw from defense and deal with decommunization on their own.

We will remind you that on February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine

, carrying out a series of missile and air strikes on our cities, in particular on Kyiv.

The large-scale invasion is already on its 218th day (8 years of war).

The occupiers continue to destroy Ukrainian villages, towns and cities with cruise missiles and aerial bombs, killing civilians and causing devastating damage to infrastructure.

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