A city resident covers the monument to Taras Shevchenko, a famous Ukrainian poet and a national symbol, with sandbags to protect from the Russian shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. The bronze 16 meter high monument was opened in 1935, survived WWII and is considered one of the world's best monuments to Shevchenko. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)