Its removal comes after pressure from residents in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Ĭity museum director Kirsi Niku told Finnish public broadcaster YLE that the statue was designed and constructed by Estonian sculptor Matti Varik in the late 1970s on orders from Moscow. Sasu Makinen/Lehtikuva via AP 5. Finnish city removes last publicly displayed statue of LeninĪ city in southeastern Finland has removed the country’s last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir LeninĪuthorities in Kotka say the bronze bust will now be housed in a warehouse of a local museum. His followers on messaging app Telegram have more than tripled to 466,000 in the past two weeks.Ī statue of Vladimir Lenin is removed from the streets of the city of Kotka in Finland. Human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov said on Monday that he and his team had delivered advisory webinars to 10,000 company employees. Lawyers and civil society groups say they are now working flat out to offer advice to those at risk of being sent to fight in Ukraine. The number of issued one-way flight tickets from Russia increased 27% the week after the mobilisation was announced, according to flight ticketing data from Spain-based ForwardKeys. Hundreds of thousands have crossed the border to neighbouring countries such as Kazakhstan, Georgia and Finland. Putin announced last month that 300,000 people would be enlisted, prompting many military-age citizens to flee the country. Russian lawyers say they have been swamped with recent legal requests from citizens who do not want to be mobilised for the Ukraine war. Russian lawyers inundated with requests for advice Even though they claim both voted in favour of it. "When someone tries to steal the wheels of your Tesla, it doesn't make them legal owner of the car or of the wheels. The Kremlin has praised Musk for suggesting a possible peace deal, but other European leaders, including Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, hit out at Musk over his Twitter proposal. On Tuesday, Zelenskyy signed a decree formally declaring the prospect of any talks with the Kremlin leader “impossible” over the annexation of four Ukrainian regions. Moscow has called on Kyiv to "cease hostilities" and "return to the negotiating table" but Zelenskyy said he would not negotiate with Russia as long as Putin was president. "F*** off is my very diplomatic reply to you, Elon Musk," added the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak said "a better peace plan" would include Ukraine's "liberation of its territories, including annexed Crimea", a "demilitarisation and denuclearisation" of Russia and that "war criminals" be brought to international justice.
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The Kremlin has previously stated that it would defend all its territory by "any means necessary," including nuclear weapons. Russia does not have full control over any of the four Ukrainian regions. The confusion about new borders comes as Putin faces growing criticism at home over the logistics of Russia's "partial military mobilisation". Senior Russian lawmakers have called on the Kremlin to annex the entirety of the two southern regions, including areas still under Kyiv’s control.
The borders of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are still undecided, Peskov added. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Donetsk and Luhansk are joining Russia with the same administrative borders that existed before fighting first broke out in 2014 between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.
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