Russian attack in Kupyansk, Ukraine, destroyed local museum and one of its employees dies

War in Ukraine: this morning a Russian attack hit the center of the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv oblast (eastern part of the country) with S-300 missiles. During the action, the Kupyansk Museum of Local History (Куп’янський краєзнавчий музей), the main one in the town that had 27 thousand inhabitants before the war: A museum employee died under Russian bombs. Ten other people were injured.

Providing an initial assessment of the attack is President Volodymyr Zelen’skyj himself, who wrote on his Telegram account this morning, “Kupyansk, city center, Museum of Local History. The terrorist state is doing everything to completely destroy us. Our history, our culture, our people. Killing Ukrainians with absolutely barbaric methods. We do not have the right to forget this for a single second. We must respond and we will respond! At the moment we know of the death of a museum employee and ten wounded. There are still people under the rubble.” The Ukrainian president then turns his thoughts to the missing woman and condolences to her relatives, and concludes, “all those guilty of these war crimes will be brought to justice and there will be no mercy.”

The Kupyansk Museum of Local History, opened in 1973, was housed in a 19th-century building. Opened in 1972, it housed a thousand items including historical documents, archaeological finds, ethnographic pieces, a numismatic collection, and rare photographs, all documenting the city’s history.

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Russian attack in Kupyansk, Ukraine, destroyed local museum and one of its employees dies

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