Soldiers evacuate stone monuments from steppe era from Synelnykove district
Soldiers of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade, together with museum workers, volunteers, and philanthropists, evacuated Polovtsian statues from the 11th–13th centuries—unique stone monuments from the steppe era—from Vasylkivka in the Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Facebook by the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
These monuments are direct historical evidence that the lands of the Donetsk region have a deep and multi-layered heritage that has nothing to do with the myth of “originally Russian” territories. That is why Russia's imperial policy has, for centuries, sought to suppress or destroy such markers of memory, as they undermine the constructed narrative.
“Russian aggression threatens cultural heritage: Monuments are being destroyed, looted, and appropriated. All these crimes are being documented and will not go unpunished,” the defenders noted.
The evacuated steles will be stored in Dnipro until peace is reached, after which they will be returned to their place.
As reported by Ukrinform, in the Synelnykove district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian shelling has turned villages into deserted ruins with destroyed houses.
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