Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Culture
Historically, the last week of August in Ukraine is a time of commemoration, and this year was no exception. The 29th August, ‘A Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine’, is a day when the Ukrainian people’s thoughts are with those Ukraine army soldiers, who in the Donbass in 2014, heroically broke through an encirclement of Russian occupying forces (Source – RBC Ukraine). On the 24th August, the 34th Ukraine Independence Day, Ukrainians celebrated independence from the Soviet Union. President Zelensky addressed the people in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), and included an interesting element to his speech, “independence fights in the ring on world stages, and arenas where Ukrainians perform. It is on the pages of books, and in the words of poems ...