Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Kharkiv region, as a result of enemy shelling, about 100 educational institutions have been damaged and destroyed.
As museums across the country evacuate art and cultural treasures, the curators of the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale smuggled works to Austria by car so the show can go on.
"It is simply irony of fate that we should be saving Russian artists, paintings by Russian artists from their own nation," said the head of the museum s foreign art department.
As Russian forces pound the city with artillery and airstrikes, staff at the main museum in Kharkiv raced to get priceless artworks to safety, many of them by Russian artists.