Ukrainian Cultural Heritage: A Victim of Russian Aggression

As a result of systematic attacks by the Russian armed forces on Ukrainian cities, civilians are killed and injured, and civilian objects are destroyed. Amidst these attacks, museums and architectural monuments protect valuable objects. The destruction and expropriation of Ukraine’s cultural property by the Russian aggressor is striking in its scope. These actions have reached such an extent that we can consider it the destruction of Ukraine’s cultural heritage. At the opening of the Ukrainian Institute’s ‘Postcards from Ukraine’ project, the director of the USAID Mission in Ukraine, James Hope, noted that ‘Russia’s malicious, targeted destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Monuments is a huge loss for Ukraine, Europe, and the whole world. Trying to erase the culture and history of Ukraine, the Kremlin is trying to erase the very concept of the Ukrainian nation’.[1]

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