War in Ukraine// Ukrainian literature is destroyed and replaced by Russian in the temporarily occupied regions
Russian invaders are destroying Ukrainian literature in the temporarily occupied territories. There are almost no such books left in the libraries of the occupied parts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, writes Unian. The representatives of the so-called administrations, especially the so-called "departments of education", deal with the destruction of literature.
"The occupiers send reports for the destruction and replacement of literature in the temporarily occupied territories directly to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. The Russians qualify Ukrainian books as "extremist literature," reads the message.
According to Unian, the destroyed Ukrainian literature is being replaced by the Russian one. The source points out that in 2023 alone, about 2.5 million Russian books were brought to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. We remind that Russia intends to organize so-called local "elections" on September 10 in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson, in the south-east of Ukraine, which it occupied following the invasion of February 24, 2022 and which it does not fully control.
The temporarily Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk and Donetsk were officially annexed by the Russian Federation on September 30, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the so-called leaders of the four occupied Ukrainian regions signed then, in a ceremony in Moscow, a series of documents, called by the Kremlin "accession treaties". Later, Putin approved by decree the granting of passports to the residents of the four illegally annexed Ukrainian regions.
