"My Kharkiv friends who decided to stay-most of them are architects, my classmates-immediately wrote to say 'you are not mistaken', it is Derzhprom," Gubkina tells The Art Newspaper. "People gathered near the building because of their feelings, I think they need to be connected there near the building, to try to help and try to understand what exactly happened, what kind of damage [has been done]."
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky posted images on X of a destroyed corner of the concrete building and its blown out windows, describing it as 'one of the world's most famous Constructivist buildings under provisional enhanced Unesco protection.'
In what may be a reference to UN Secretary-General António Guterres's meeting with Vladimir Putin last week... he said that every appeasement of the Russian president 'simply feeds the aggressor's appetite', while 'adhering to shared principles saves human lives and cultural heritage.'
Reports-including from the mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terkhor, on Telegram on 30 October-suggest that one of the entrances to the site was severely damaged, but that the main structure has survived.
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