Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a large Soviet-era monument in the centre of Kyiv meant to symbolise friendship between Russia and Ukraine in response to Moscow's invasion, according to the city's mayor.
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The eight-metre (27-ft) bronze statue, erected in 1982 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union, depicted a Ukrainian and Russian worker on a plinth, holding aloft a Soviet order of friendship