Charles XII
Charles XII (1682–1718) was King of Sweden from 1697, of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. He ascended the throne at the age of fifteen and became famous for his role in the Great Northern War against Russia and its allies, including the victory at Narva and the campaign into Ukraine, where he supported the Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1708–1709. He suffered a decisive defeat at Poltava in 1709 and was killed in 1718 during the siege of the Norwegian fortress of Fredriksten.
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Ukraine's cabinet backs monument to Hetman Mazepa in central Kyiv on site of dismantled Lenin statue
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has endorsed a Ministry of Culture proposal to erect a monument to Hetman Ivan Mazepa on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv, on the site of the Lenin monument toppled during the Euromaidan in 2013. The initiative was put forward by President Volodymyr Zelensky in June and is being implemented under a presidential decree.