‘We could hear the roof collapsing’: how Russian missiles devastated Kyiv’s cultural sites (opens in new tab)

Russia’s recent assault killed two people, injured 90 more and significantly damaged many of the capital’s museumsFor four years, Vitalina Martynovska and her team had been working on a complete transformation of Kyiv’s National Chornobyl Museum.The new sleek displays were designed to tell a fresh story about the reactor explosion of 26 April 1986 – the nuclear accident in history, a factor that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and an event that continues to shape Ukraine’s id...