# Russian drone strike sets fire to millions of books

https://mins.news/en/video/18112

- Reuters, 2026-08-10 12:54 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsKvW0EM7Ys

> A Russian drone attack hit a Ranok warehouse in Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, on August 1. The strike set the facility on fire and destroyed roughly 8 million books. The loss is described as the most severe blow yet suffered by Ukraine’s publishing industry during the four-year-old war.

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