Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
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Russia deliberately sets libraries on fire in Ukraine. Putin wants to destroy not only the country, but also its culture.
📚💔 In the summer of 2026, Ukrainian book publishing suffered unprecedented attacks: Russian occupiers destroyed about 13 million Ukrainian-language books. It's not just numbers — it's our culture, identity, and education that invaders are trying to destroy. Publishers are on the verge of survival, and the future of children's education is under threat.
Russian strikes destroy a third of the annual circulation of Ukrainian books
Eight Million Books Burned in Kharkiv
Good Morning, A Russian drone strike in August destroyed 8 million books at a Kharkiv warehouse belonging to Ranok, a Ukrainian publisher, more than 85% of its stock, including 628,000 new schoolbooks. The government estimates 13 million Ukrainian books were destroyed this summer, a third of everything printed in the country this year (The Guardian). The British Museum, which has the Bayeux Tapestry on loan from France until July 2027, will now …
Eight million books were destroyed in a Russian drone strike on a warehouse at the Ranok publishing house in Kharkiv. Children's books, textbooks, fiction and almost the entire available circulation of one of the major Ukrainian publishers were destroyed. This is just one of a series of strikes that have threatened book publishing in Ukraine in recent months.
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