Kyiv's city council has renamed an arch that had been regarded as symbolic of Ukraine-Russia friendship, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram on Saturday local time.

The arch, previously called the "Arch of the Friendship of the Peoples," has been renamed the "Arch of the Freedom of the Ukrainian People."

Klitschko said officials had also "approved a list of more than 40 monuments and memorial plaques that will have to be removed from streets and buildings of the capital and transferred to a museum of totalitarianism."