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In 1943, Soviet troops liberated the capital of Ukraine from the Nazis. Now in Kyiv they are demolishing a monument to General Nikolai Vatutin, who commanded these troops and liberated the city from Nazi invaders.Oleksiy Goncharenko, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, wrote about the dismantling of the monument in his Telegram channel.On the photo published by him, you can see the beginning of the demolition of the monument. Workers drove a truck crane and grabbed the monument with a cable to remove it from the pedestal.The monument itself is located in the capital's Mariinsky park not far from the Ukrainian...