Ivan Mazepa
Ivan Mazepa (1639–1709) was a Ukrainian Cossack military and political leader, Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1687 to 1709. He led the Hetmanate after the partition of the Cossack lands under the 1667 Andrusovo truce and sought to preserve its autonomy as Russian influence grew. In 1708 he sided with Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War; the defeat at Poltava in 1709 ended his political project and led to a long-lasting vilification in Russian imperial and Soviet tradition.
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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.