Photo: Jakub Kaminski/East News Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko speaks to the media during the operation of dismantling of the People's Friendship Arch monument on April 26, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. A 40-year old monument which commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the USSR and the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv has been partially dismantled removing the statue of two men holding up the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples. The remaining titanium arch will be renamed and illuminated in colours of the Ukrainian flag