you have not been able to tell that much during the last year because of the war, about the fact that this country has a rich and distinct culture? i was standing in between two great cathedrals. one cathedral is behind you, saint sophia of the 11th century. and this, one st. michael s cathedral, was ruined by the way, by bolsheviks insurgents, and was fully rebuilt. but this is the great square, it shows how rich the ukraine history is, and russia right now, they are robbing artifacts from museums, so they steal also our history, because ancient kyiv started from here the place where we are standing right now. and russians all the time or trying to take this on their behalf, the rich history of ukraine. but going back to the 30s, this has been a struggle for ukrainians. they have always felt that association with russia is meant to diminish the cultural heritage. vladimir putin said it on the night he declared the special military operation, that it is not a place of
representation is of quote, cultural heritage sites, our history, language, literature, our type of music. and denying that identity means to lying ukraine and denying cross cultural heritage sites. they ruined completely more than 500 historical and architectural sites during this war. some of them have targeted specifically, like the museum in the kharkiv region, or a museum in the kyiv region. this is done on purpose, the same thing they are doing, trying to take our artifacts. what is important to mention, we probably have the biggest stealing of artifacts since the second world war. at the same time, the biggest evacuation of artifacts. hundreds of thousands of objects were evacuated during the war, because we are caring about cultural heritage. by the way, i m thankful to the