If anyone, given the chauvinist war that Russia is waging against the Ukraine should be surprised that this war is also being waged against Ukrainian culture, then it’s not us Ukrainians. In the same way, there was no doubt for us from the beginning that – in addition to the destruction caused by blind anger, the acts of pure barbarism intended to channel the frustration at the lack of “real” war successes – it has no accidental or occasional or selective and certainly no collateral character , but consciously, systemically, systematically and structurally, yes, that it represents the purpose of this war.
