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Russian Lawmaker Wants Statue of Ukrainian Poet Replaced With Wagner Boss

‘PATRIOTIC’

Andrei Gurulyov wants a famous statue of a Ukrainian poet torn down—and a new monument to the Kremlin’s shock troops in its place.

Allison Quinn
Allison Quinn 

News Editor

A man lays flowers in memory of those killed in a recent strike on a residential block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, at the monument to Ukrainian poetess Lesya Ukrainka in Moscow on Jan. 23, 2023.
Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty
Allison Quinn

Allison Quinn

News Editor

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