The embassies of Ukraine and Serbia are also on the street to be called as ‘Free Ukraine’
Tirana:
Albania will rename a street in the capital Tirana, where the Russian and Ukrainian embassies are located, Free Ukraine to honor Ukraine’s resistance to war, the mayor said on Sunday.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, NATO member Albania has joined other European countries in imposing economic sanctions and banning Russian aircraft from its skies.
“Our generation will be marked by this bloody Russian aggression, and Ukraine’s heroic resistance must be commemorated in our public places,” Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj told Reuters.
The street was previously named after Donika Kastrioti, wife of Albanian national hero Skanderbeg. The embassies of Serbia and Kosovo are also on the street.
Mayor Veliaj said the new name would be a keepsake for Russian embassy staff. “The Russians will have to work, live and receive their mail at a Free Ukraine street address.”
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” that it says aims not to occupy territory, but to destroy the military capabilities of its southern neighbor and imprison what it sees as dangerous nationalists.
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