Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in the spring of 2022.

As reported by The Kyiv Independent , “According to the Prosecutor General, the Russian lieutenant general who ordered the attack is originally from the village of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast and commands Russia’s 6th Guards Air and Air Defense Forces Army.”

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The prosecutor general wrote, “The (lieutenant) general knew for certain that he was attacking not a military target but a monument of Ukrainian culture. Despite this, he gave the combat order to destroy it.”

The memorial museum dedicated to Skovoroda, an 18th-century philosopher steeped in the Socratic method, was housed in an estate where he lived the final years of his life and died in 1794.…