The street exhibition "War of Destruction" aims to use a combination of historical facts and visual effects to convey to the general public that Russia, under various names, has been destroying Ukraine, Ukrainians, and Ukrainian identity throughout its centuries-old history, and not just since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
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All the data included in the texts of the exposition “Extermination War” is completely open and has been the subject of many publications in the press, social networks, etc. But unfortunately, to this day they do not form a coherent picture for the majority of people.

The main idea (also not new in general, but not yet implemented) of the exhibition is to demonstrate in a concise format that the process of Russia’s (under its various names) attempts to destroy Ukraine and Ukrainian identity have been continuous throughout history.

After many shameful compromises and attempts to reach an agreement, humanity, finding itself on the edge of the abyss, found the strength to unite to destroy the Hitler dictatorship and hold an international trial of a small part of the Nazi criminals.

The civilized world justly recognized the Holocaust, which cost the lives of millions of Jews, as perhaps the most terrible crime that must not occur again.

At the same time, this same civilized world has accepted as absolutely normal coexistence and doing huge business with Russia, which destroyed millions of Ukrainians through the Holodomor, terror and other genocidal acts and is directly responsible for its own numerous war crimes, crimes against humanity and terror, the victims of which are tens of millions of people of different nationalities in many countries of the world.

Even after another collapse of the empire, which decided to call itself the USSR for more than 70 years, Russia’s crimes were not condemned and an international trial of it did not take place.

The visual idea is that behind the figure of the Russian executioner in the guise of an NKVD officer, the visitor sees a symbolic image of the cemetery of millions of Ukrainian victims destroyed by the Russians. The main figure of the exhibition is a reflection of the traditional cross of Cossack burials and has a colour close to grey sandstone — the traditional material from which the crosses were made.
The visitor will read twenty-eight texts, illustrated with numerous photos, covering the history of Russia’s genocidal, ethnocidal, linguocidal, etc. actions against Ukraine from 1155 to the present.