{"id":85288,"date":"2025-08-21T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85288\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:54:12","slug":"sumy-state-university-loses-60000-books-due-to-russian-attacks-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85288\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumy State University loses 60,000 books due to Russian attacks \u2013 photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The destroyed library in the N building of the Sumy State University. Photo: Suspilne Sumy<\/p>\n

In the library of Sumy State University (SSU), 15,000 books burned down in a Russian attack on 18 August. Since April 2025, when Russia struck the Congress Centre of SSU, the university has lost 45,000 books. A total of 60,000 volumes have been destroyed.<\/p>\n

Source: Suspilne Sumy<\/a> with reference to the director of the library in the N building<\/p>\n

Details: The director said that these were the newest books purchased over the past 5-6 years.<\/p>\n

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On the night of 17-18 August, Russian forces attacked Sumy State University with missiles and drones. As a result of the strikes, the main building was damaged and the new one burned down completely.<\/p>\n

“It [the new N building \u2013 ed.] had stood abandoned for a long time, and about seven years ago we restored the classrooms, lecture halls and created a centre for shared equipment. Now we will have to move it elsewhere. The most valuable equipment? The most expensive is the diffractometer, five million hryvnias [US$120,000 \u2013 ed.]. Altogether, the equipment here is worth about twenty million [US$483,000 \u2013 ed.],” said senior engineer Olena Tkachenko in a comment to Suspilne.<\/p>\n

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The burned books in the SSU library<\/p>\n

Photo: Suspilne Sumy<\/p>\n

The new building also housed one of the university libraries, in which 15,000 books were destroyed.<\/p>\n

Before that, on 13 April, Russian forces struck the historic centre of Sumy. Thirty-five people were killed. One of the SSU buildings and the Congress Centre were damaged by missiles, where a further 45,000 books were burned.<\/p>\n

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