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The Russians destroyed or damaged almost a thousand libraries in Ukraine

During the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed or damaged almost a thousand libraries with more than 200 million books.

Taras Kremin, Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, stated this.

On the All-Ukrainian Day of Libraries, he called to participate in the restoration of destroyed library funds and to support the project initiated by him “Free people read in Ukrainian!”. Thanks to the project, the renovation of libraries and bookshelves continues, particularly in shelters, in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Sumy regions.

Cultural and educational institutions devastated by the Russians need artistic, educational, and historical literature, Kremin emphasized.

According to his data, during the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, the Russians destroyed or damaged almost a thousand libraries, and with them – more than 200 million Ukrainian books.

“Our goal is to renew the library funds as much as possible and to approve it as a state priority,” the commissioner for the protection of the state language emphasized.