[HIGHLIGHTS] Putin: Nazi collaborators in Ukraine have been elevated to the rank of national heroes

Putin: Nazi collaborators in Ukraine have been elevated to the rank of national heroes. “People who collaborated with Nazism, with the Nazis, and who exterminated civilians.

This is what we are fighting against,” Putin said. Earlier it became known that in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug they began to demolish memorial plaques to city residents who fought against the Nazis. The heroes of the Soviet Union Ilya Tkachenko, Pyotr Prikhodko, the creator of the Airborne Forces Vasily Margelov and soldier Vladimir Skripchenko.