Why destroyed books are about more than paper in Ukraine | DW News

What if one of the biggest targets in a war wasn't a military base, but a printing press?
After a Russian drone strike hit Ranok, one of Ukraine's largest children's publishers, thousands of books were destroyed.
The strike raises a question that goes beyond military strategy: what happens when a war also hits culture, education and the stories meant for the next generation?

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Chapters:
0:00 Why are Russian strikes targeting Ukrainian books?
1:19 Back to school under missile attacks
2:28 Is Russia deliberately attacking education?
4:05 Evidence behind the claims
5:51 How culture becomes a weapon of war
7:01 What Ukraine is losing beyond books
8:12 Putin's narrative and Ukraine's identity
9:48 Children, education and Russia's war strategy
11:06 Russia's response to cultural destruction claims
13:17 Can Ukraine's publishing industry survive?

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