Russia deliberately targets Ukrainian cultural sites, damaging Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery and Dovzhenko Film Studio's 100,000-item costume collection.
It genuinely would be a shame. This destruction of beautiful human culture is amongst the worst parts of war. I fully believe that Russia is doing it specifically because it opposes the notion of a rich and thriving Ukrainian culture separate from the Russian one
Maybe that’s the point though. Get Russians to rally around the flag, misappropriate the money for reconstruction, get the sympathy of stupid westerners & easterners, rebuild it as a shrine to Putin.
It’d be a damned shame is this burned to the ground.
It genuinely would be a shame. This destruction of beautiful human culture is amongst the worst parts of war. I fully believe that Russia is doing it specifically because it opposes the notion of a rich and thriving Ukrainian culture separate from the Russian one
Maybe that’s the point though. Get Russians to rally around the flag, misappropriate the money for reconstruction, get the sympathy of stupid westerners & easterners, rebuild it as a shrine to Putin.
And blow it up again