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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.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.
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