The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, voted to remove Oleksandr Tkachenko from his role as the head of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on July 27, according to MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak’s announcement on Telegram.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine presses on into its fourth week, volunteers and cultural workers, a number of whom are also at arms, are rushing to erect makeshift barriers and other forms of protection against what could be a demoralizing strike against heritage sites across the embattled.