Ukraine wants to rename Sevastopol

Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has proposed renaming the city of Sevastopol.

He outlined such an idea on his Facebook page on April 2, according to TASS.

"[The city] is being renamed to "object number 6". The Verkhovna Rada [parliament] of Ukraine will later decide on the new name of the city. Maybe Akhtiar [one of the villages that previously existed on the northern shore of Sevastopol Bay]," Danilov wrote.

He said such a measure would destroy all current historical associations of Sevastopol with the city of Russian military glory.

In addition, the NSDC secretary called for the demolition of the monument to sunken ships and the installation of another memorial sign in its place.