The archives are extremely important, particularly because russia has been gradually closing its most sensitive archives to foreign scholars. The other great fear, of course, is that any russian occupiers will purge the archives or destroy all the material which doesn't go to putin's ukranis really russian narrative. And i thank you so much for joining us.
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.