ロシアとの友好記念碑を撤去 ウクライナ首都

【キーウＡＦＰ＝時事】ウクライナの首都キーウ市当局は４月３０日、ロシアとの友好をたたえる旧ソ連時代の記念碑の撤去を開始した。市長室がソーシャルメディアで明らかにした。（写真は、ウクライナの首都キーウで、ウクライナがロシアの支配下に置かれることになった１６５４年の協定締結を記念する旧ソ連時代の記念碑を撤去する作業員、）
　碑は、ウクライナがロシアの支配下に置かれることになった１６５４年の協定締結を記念したもの。協定に調印したウクライナ人とロシア人を描いた石彫作品で、両国の「友好」をたたえる記念物の一部として、キーウ中心部の公園に設置されていた。
　市長室は、彫刻は２０点ほどで重量は各６～７トンあるとし、撤去には数日かかる見通しだとしている。今後は市内の博物館に移送するという。
　２０２２年にロシアが侵攻を開始して以降、同公園内に設置されていたウクライナ人とロシア人の労働者を描いた２体のブロンズ像は既に撤去されている。
　今回の撤去をめぐり、市民の意見は分かれている。
　まだ設置されたままだったことが理解できないという声もあれば、撤去に使用する費用があるなら戦費に回すべきだという声も聞かれた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/05/01-20:20）

Kyiv authorities on Tuesday began taking down a Soviet-era monument celebrating friendship with Russia -- more than two years into an invasion by Moscow which has cost tens of thousands of lives.
City municipal services have begun dismantling the monument, the mayor's office said on social media.
The monument commemorates the signing in 1654 of a treaty binding Ukraine to Russian rule.
The structure -- a series of stone sculptures depicting the treaty's Ukrainian and Russian signatories -- was installed in a park in central Kyiv as part of an memorial complex celebrating the friendship between Russians and Ukrainians.
Since the invasion began in 2022, Kyiv authorities had already taken down two bronze statues depicting a Ukrainian and a Russian worker at the same site.
The dismantlement could take several days since the structure is quite massive. It includes around 20 pieces weighing between six and seven tonnes each, the mayor's office said.
The monument will be transferred to a Kyiv museum.
Residents of the capital were divided over the dismantling.
It has to be done, said Alyona Yavorivska, a 32-year-old psychologist.
I don't understand how a monument like that can still stand here, she said.
But Oleksandr Severyn, a 32-year-old fireman, said the removal was inappropriate and officials should instead be spending money on the army during wartime.
Ukraine, which gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, has for years been taking down Soviet-era monuments and has re-named many towns and cities to restore their pre-Soviet names.
This process accelerated following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the February 2022 invasion.
Ukraine last year passed a law on decolonisation to change street names and take down more monuments.
In Kyiv, a square once named after Russian author Leo Tolstoy is now called Square of Ukrainian Heroes.