Rossiyskaya Street in Kiev was renamed in honor of the soldier Yuri Litvinsky, who died in Donbass. On July 28, Tymish Martynenko-Kushlyansky, a member of the Kyiv City Council commission on renaming and public activist, wrote about this on Facebook.
“Rossiyskaya Street has just disappeared in Kiev. Instead, it was replaced by Yuri Litvinsky Street – a hero of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a fighter of the Donbass battalion who fell from a bullet of a Russian sniper near Ilovaisk, ”wrote Martynenko-Kushlyansky.
According to him, the family of the deceased lives near the renamed street.
The Ukrainian authorities began to rename streets, squares and squares in 2015 after the adoption of a law prohibiting the propaganda of Soviet symbols. So, in April 2019, Ivan Kudri Street (intelligence officer, hero of the Soviet Union) changed its name to John McCain Street, the deceased American Senator.
In the same month, the head of the Ukrainian Institute of Memory Volodymyr Vyatrovich announced the development of a bill, according to which legal entities popularizing the Russian Empire would have to change their names.