The Russian attack on Ukraine is also particularly directed against the country’s culture, according to the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk. “Our theatres are being deliberately bombed, as it happened in Mariupol, our libraries and museums are being looted, books are being confiscated,” he said at a solidarity concert of the Ukrainian folk dance group Virsky in Berlin on Wednesday. The war is part of a long tradition of oppression of Ukrainian culture by colonial powers from East and West, Melnyk stressed. “The Ukrainian language, the Ukrainian church, Ukrainian culture – everyt…