Moscow, April 27. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered today to create museums that include the main events of the Russian “military campaign” in Ukraine that began in February 2022.
Putin gave the ministries of Culture and Defense, among others, until the end of the year to enable these museums, according to the Kremlin.
Museums must not only include the main events of the so-called “special military operation”, but also “the exploits of its participants”.
The head of the Kremlin also commissioned to study the issue of the delivery of artifacts linked to the war to these new cultural centers.
Putin maintains that the military intervention in the neighboring country will allow historical justice to be restored, since he considers that both the annexed Crimean peninsula (2014) and the four Ukrainian regions incorporated in September 2022 are historical territories of Russia.
While Putin considers the objectives set in this campaign “noble”, the Russian Army does not report casualties in its ranks – they are estimated in the tens of thousands – and has allowed the Wagner mercenary group to use ex-convicts in its assault units .
Russian troops and the Wagners have been accused of committing war crimes and the International Criminal Court has even issued an arrest warrant for Putin.
Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the development of a new history manual for the last year of secondary education with chapters dedicated to the campaign in Ukraine.
The independent press has denounced that the positive references to Ukraine have disappeared in various historical descriptions, especially in reference to Kievan Rus, the first medieval Slavic kingdom and which both Russians and Ukrainians consider the original precursors of their respective States.EFE
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