Most institutions stayed open right up to the actual attack. Art work is either being put away in basements, and curators are understandably tight clipped about where exactly they've been put for fear of looting. Other art works, the high lights, are being moved to levif in the west. But there are problems with that, because levif itself may come into the fire line. And we're all slightly holding our breath to see how long levif itself remains safe?
For decades, Germany was doctrinally pacifist: a legacy left over from the second world war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has
changed that, seemingly overnight. As Russia’s military advance has stalled, it has turned its firepower against civilian targets, resulting in widespread death, but also in the
destruction of Ukraine’s cultural legacy. And remembering one of the many brave, ordinary Ukrainians, fallen in defence of their country.