How many libraries and books has been destroyed by the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war: data from the ombudsman
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russian occupiers have destroyed or damaged almost a thousand libraries
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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russian occupiers have destroyed or damaged almost a thousand libraries.
In addition, more than 200 million Ukrainian books were lost as a result of Russian aggression. About this reported Taras Kremin, Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language.
“Cultural and educational institutions devastated by the Russians need artistic, educational, and historical literature.
During the full-scale invasion, almost a thousand libraries were destroyed or damaged by Russian criminals, and with them – more than 200 million Ukrainian books. Our goal is to renew library funds as much as possible and to approve this as a state priority.” – the message says.
On the All-Ukrainian Library Day, which is celebrated annually on September 30, Kremin called on all those willing to join the restoration of library funds and support the project “The Free Read in Ukrainian”, which provides a collection of Ukrainian-language books in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
We used to toldthat 50,000 books were destroyed as a result of a Russian missile attack on the printing house “Faktor-Druk” located in the Osnovyansky District of Kharkiv.
