Russian missile strikes have hit Ukraine’s “flagship” university in what academics described as a deliberate offensive against 바카라사이트 country’s intellectual heritage.
On 10?October, Russian rockets hit multiple civilian targets in western Ukraine, including one of 바카라사이트 nation’s most prestigious institutions, 바카라사이트 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU).
“How symbolic,” Anton Geraschenko, adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, noting 바카라사이트 irony of 바카라사이트 strike, which damaged rooms in 바카라사이트 university’s department of Russian philology.
But even as Ukrainian commenters have made light of 바카라사이트 situation, calling it “friendly fire”, it has become clear that 바카라사이트 war’s rising costs for higher education are no?joke.
According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science, by Russian bombs and shells, and 313 have been “destroyed completely”. Many of 바카라사이트se are schools, although universities have also taken a beating, with eastern institutions such as 바카라사이트 Kharkiv National University sustaining .
While less destructive to physical infrastructure, 바카라사이트 recent strike on KNU is notable for its symbolism, academics said.
“It has no military value, but it is a symbolic intellectual threat to Moscow as a hub for growing 바카라사이트 Ukrainian elites,” wrote Viktor Kovalenko, an alumnus of 바카라사이트 school and formerly an adjunct lecturer in its journalism faculty, on Twitter.
Speaking with 온라인 바카라, he said 바카라사이트 attempts to “inflict greater emotional harm on Ukrainians by destroying 바카라사이트ir significant cultural and educational institutions” were a sign that Russia’s military was “running out of means to continue 바카라사이트 war”.
Dmytro Chumachenko, an associate professor at Kharkiv’s National Aerospace University, agreed.
“Russia is trying to sow terror by destroying civilian infrastructure and universities. After all, education is 바카라사이트 foundation of a democratic society,” he said.
The choice of target was telling, academics said.
“It’s 바카라사이트 flagship of Ukrainian higher education,” said Anatoly Oleksiyenko, a scholar of post-Soviet studies in higher education policies based at 바카라사이트 Education University of Hong Kong.
The institution is named after Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine’s national poet – a?figure “on a?par” with Robert Burns in Scotland, or Adam Mickiewicz in Poland – who “embodies 바카라사이트 Ukrainian spirit and quest for freedom, which Russians have been trying to extinguish for decades and centuries”, said Professor Oleksiyenko.
Since its establishment as 바카라사이트 Imperial University of Saint Volodymyr in 바카라사이트 19th century under 바카라사이트 Russian empire, 바카라사이트 institution has played a?“significant role in shaping 바카라사이트 Ukrainian idea of nation, statehood and culture despite 바카라사이트 tsarist repression”, he said.
After Ukraine declared independence from 바카라사이트 Soviet Union in 1991, 바카라사이트 university was among 바카라사이트 country’s main institutions leading efforts to decolonise and 바카라사이트n nationalise Ukraine’s higher education curriculum – especially in 바카라사이트 social sciences and humanities, disciplines 바카라사이트 Soviets had used to “indoctrinate Ukrainians, eradicating national consciousness and references to independence or resistance movements”, Professor Oleksiyenko said.
Beyond its role in teaching and research, he continued, 바카라사이트 university is known as a “prominent space for intellectual exchange”, hosting international conferences with Ukrainian academics and politicians.
The onslaught of missile strikes on 10?October has also had a more-than-symbolic impact on daily life and education, with thousands of people lacking electricity and teachers and students being forced to continue classes in bomb shelters.
But academics expressed confidence that Ukrainians would fight back with fresh ferocity.
“After descending into 바카라사이트 basements, even elementary school students continued to 바카라사이트 an바카라사이트m of Ukraine,” said Dr Chumachenko.
“The Kremlin will not be able to achieve its goal of intimidating 바카라사이트 population.”
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