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Ukraine, thus the country protects its cultural heritage from war

Almost seventy days of war in Ukraine. Over two months. He continues the offensive in the Donbass and continues the Ukrainian civil, military and political resistance. The resistance of weapons but also of the founding places of Ukrainian culture. Like the Potocki Palace, home of the Borys Voznytsky National Gallery, in Lviv. Right now the gallery has moved almost all of its items to a secret storage location, with a small selection still awaiting safe transportation.

It happened across the country, where galleries and museums in various parts of Ukraine moved their works of art and artifacts from historians to storage before any possible missile attack or other military action. In a statement, the Borys Voznytsky National Gallery pointed out: War is not only murder and physical destruction, but also a moral attack on culture. We are making every effort to preserve and create cultural initiatives and institutions that guide Ukrainian society and the whole democracy forward. “

The art complex brings together several museums: Lozynskyj Palace, Potočkyj Palace, the Museum of Modernism, the Boim Chapel Museum, the Museum of Ancient Ukrainian Books, the Ivan George Pinzel Museum, the Museum of Modern Sculpture and several castles throughout the region of Lviv. Right here it arrived in these hours Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. A video published by some international media shows her as she enters a bar in Lviv.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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