{"id":78428,"date":"2026-08-17T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/78428\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:04:22","slug":"russian-strike-on-kyiv-book-market-an-attempt-to-annihilate-ukrainian-identity-france-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/78428\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian strike on Kyiv book market: &#8216;An attempt to annihilate Ukrainian identity&#8217; \u2022 FRANCE 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Russian strike on Kyiv book market: &#039;An attempt to annihilate Ukrainian identity&#039; \u2022 FRANCE 24\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omsvuThM8nM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRussian strike on Kyiv book market: &#8216;An attempt to annihilate Ukrainian identity&#8217; \u2022 FRANCE 24<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA central book market in Kyiv was hit by a Russian strike on Sunday. FRANCE 24\u2019s correspondent in Ukraine, Emmanuelle Chaze, describes the strikes as an attack on &#8220;Ukrainian culture, the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian identity.\u201d She says that \u201csince the beginning of the summer, Russia has already destroyed millions of books\u201d in strikes, while churches and other key cultural sites have also been targeted in what she describes as an attempt to weaken Ukrainian identity.<br \/>\n#Russia #Ukraine #BookMarketKyiv<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian strike on Kyiv book market: &#8216;An attempt to annihilate Ukrainian identity&#8217; \u2022 FRANCE 24 A central book&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[64058,6448,64478,64472,22,23,20,21,2540,33507,17,1505,9709,64473,79,577,64474,64475,64476,64477],"class_list":["post-78428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-book-market","tag-cultural-heritage","tag-cultural-sites","tag-emmanuelle-chaze","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-kyiv","tag-kyiv-strike","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-russian-attacks","tag-russian-strike","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian-books","tag-ukrainian-culture","tag-ukrainian-identity","tag-ukrainian-language"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117111494072368118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}