“Today, a whole civilized world stands with Ukraine. We are supporting Ukraine, opening an exhibition prepared by our Ukrainian brothers. We have a duty to testify about what is happening in Ukraine, about war crimes that are taking place there”, said the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Prof. Piotr Gliński during the opening of the exhibition “Ukraine. War in Europe” at the Open-Air Gallery of the Royal Łazienki Museum in Aleje Ujazdowskie in Warsaw.

The exhibition was created by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. The Polish partners of the exhibition include the Museum of Polish History and the Royal Łazienki Museum.

The exhibition, which aims to show the citizens of Europe the truth about the crimes against humanity committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, will be presented in several European cities. It was presented on May 8 in Kyiv, since May 9 in Warsaw and Vilnius, on May 16 in Berlin, Bamberg and Frankfurt and then in Brussels. The exhibition was prepared in Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, German and English. The Polish version will be available in Warsaw until May 30.

The Minister of Culture and National Heritage emphasized that the exhibition was prepared so that we would not get used to what is happening in Ukraine.

“The worst thing is getting used to it, indifference and feeling that this war is progressing slowly. This is not so; innocent people are killed every day. We must remember it and we must talk about it. There is no time to think that it is happening somewhere far away, that it is none of our business. It is a matter of our entire civilization, a breakthrough moment that is restructuring the modern world” emphasized Prof. Piotr Gliński.

Adrian Andrzejewski