Parliament already renamed nearly 330 towns and villages across Ukraine

Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Vodymyr Tylishchak said this on Ukrainian television, Ukrinform reports.

In particular, he recalled that the law “On Condemnation and Prohibition of Praganda of Russian Imperial Picy in Ukraine and Deconization of Place Names” provided for clear procedures that were to be implemented in 2023-2024 – “within a year of the law's entry into force to eliminate existing names containing symbs of Russian imperial picy.”

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“To date, the Verkhovna Rada has renamed about 330 settlements across Ukraine that contain such symbs. This process continues. The Verkhovna Rada still has quite a few names under discussion. In particular, those that do not meet the standards of the Ukrainian language,” Tylishchak added.

He noted that territorial communities could also raise the issue of returning historical names or assigning new names to their settlements.

As Ukrinform reported, in the Rozdilna district of the Odesa region, the village of Pershotravneve was renamed into Hurivske in honor of the sdiers of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.