A Russian strike on a warehouse in northeastern Ukraine over the weekend destroyed eight million books, the publishing house said Monday, slamming it as an attack on Ukrainian culture.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time Russia has struck a major publishing centre, drawing accusations from Kyiv that Moscow was specifically targeting them.<\/p>\n
“This is the largest loss to Ukraine’s book infrastructure since the beginning of the full-scale war” in 2022, the publisher, Ranok, said.<\/p>\n
An AFP reporter on Saturday saw firefighters battling to contain the blaze at the warehouse in Kharkiv hours after Russia launched a drone and missile attack.<\/p>\n
“More than 8 million books have been destroyed in the fire, among them textbooks for children,” Ranok said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n
“The blaze is still raging. The enemy is trying to burn out our education and culture,” it added.<\/p>\n
The publisher’s director Viktor Kruglov called it an “attack on Ukrainian education and culture.”<\/p>\n
A strike on a warehouse near Kyiv last month burnt 800,000 books to ash, the publisher — whose portfolio includes works by George Orwell and Barack Obama — said.<\/p>\n
Throughout its invasion, Russia has frequently hit Ukrainian museums, galleries, film studios, churches and other sites of cultural importance.<\/p>\n
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