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Cultural Heritage Sites

Under Attack in Ukraine

Ukranian Artisis staying in Hong Kong use their arts to advocate for peace at
home.

by Charley Ho, Daniel Paek and Roy Ng
f Russia stops fighting, there quently annexing the Crimean launched by Russia.
will be no war. If Ukraine Peninsula, a sovereign territory of “Russia has been targeting our
Istops fighting, there will be Ukraine. cultural sites and trying to kill our
no Ukraine,” Natalia Gschöpf, a “In October 2014, one of my heritage,” she says.
Ukrainian artist, who has been very close friends lost his life in the
living for six years in Hong Kong battle. Since then, there have been About 342 cultural sites in
says. so many names,” Gschöpf says. Ukraine have been destroyed in-
cluding 127 religious sites, 150
Her comments come as the Eu- The Ukrainian artist shares buildings of historical and artistic
ropean Union hosted a seminar to that many cultural sites have been interest, 31 museums, 19 monu-
express support for and solidarity the main targets in recent attacks ments, 14 libraries, and 1 archive,
with the people of Ukraine, mark-
ing the second anniversary of Rus- “ If Russia stops fighting,
sia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
in 2022. there will be no war. If Ukraine
stops fighting, there will be no
Since 2014, Russia has initiated
conflicts by invading and subse- Ukraine.”