Museum of Ukraine to open in Berlin: exhibition with real evidence of war

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On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Museum of Ukraine will open in the German capital. It will be opened in a space Berlin bunker storiesThis will be the first museum in the world outside of Ukraine to present physical evidence of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The project presents artifacts brought directly from the battlefield. Among the exhibits are Russian drones from 2025, a destroyed evacuation transport of Ukrainian volunteers, as well as photo and video evidence of Russian war crimes, write Society Culture.

Special attention is paid to the reconstruction of the attack that occurred on April 12, 2025. Then a Russian SuperCam drone with a wingspan of 3,5 meters tracked down a van of the Kherson Volunteer Detachment. As a result of the impact, one of the passengers died, the driver Oleg Degusarov was seriously injured, but survived. The damaged car will become part of the museum exhibition.

Entrance to the exhibition. Photo: Museum of Ukraine / berlinstory.de

The organizers emphasize that the exhibition is not an art installation or production. It aims to show the documentary reality of war and the experiences that Ukrainians face every day.

The press opening of the Museum of Ukraine will take place on February 23, 2026.

The event will be attended by:

  • Hanna Malyar — former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine;

  • Oleg Degusarov is a driver of an evacuation van who survived a drone attack;

  • Yuriy Bilovus — Deputy Director of the National Military History Museum of Ukraine;

  • Volodymyr Polevyi — Colonel, Head of the Public Relations Department of the 7th Rapid Reaction Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (will join online);

  • Enno Lenze and Wieland Giebel - managers Berlin bunker stories and curators of the new exhibition.

 

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