Thanks to Pam P.
KHARKIV, Ukraine — After a Russian missile strike in May, one of Ukraine’s largest book-printing plants looked like a massacre.
Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof lay tens of thousands of charred books and printing machinery in smoldering heaps.
“Most of the books were ours,” says Artem Litvinets, editor-in-chief of Vivat, a major Ukrainian publishing house. “The attack felt methodical and deliberate, like cultural genocide.”
The Russian missile attack in May on Factor Druk printing house, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, caused casualties, tore through the roof and left books and machinery charred.
Laurel Chor for NPR
About 80% of Ukraine’s books are printed in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, which is just 20 miles from its northeastern border with Russia. Publishing has thrived even as Kharkiv has been under constant attack since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. (Continued)