‘Cultural Ramstein’ to Be Held in Ukraine with Participation of European and G7 Culture Ministers

The Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine Mykola Tochytskyi confirmed that in early February Ukraine will host the ‘Cultural Ramstein’, announced by him in November last year, with the participation of the ministers of culture of Europe and the G7. 

He said this in an interview with Suspilne, Ukrinform reports.

‘It will be a conference at the level of ministers of culture, which will take place in early February. We will talk about our cultural heritage, our problems, how we respond to them, and what help we need,’ Tochytskyi said.

According to him, the event will discuss the preservation of Ukrainian cultural artefacts.

He noted that thanks to the support of partners from Poland, Denmark, the United States and Italy, it is possible to work on the exhibition of artefacts that have already been preserved. We are talking about more than 520,000 objects taken from the frontline areas.

‘The Cultural Ramstein will be a continuation of the work done last year in Vilnius, when we talked about the preservation of Ukraine's cultural heritage and our European colleagues quite rightly raised this issue with us. In addition, we discussed this issue in Naples last year with the G7 culture ministers,’ the minister said.

As previously reported, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during the presentation of Ukraine's Internal Resilience Plan in the Verkhovna Rada on 19 November 2024, announced a proposal to assemble a large coalition of allies and partners who have a vision for the development of cultural policy in Ukraine and to hold such meetings regularly in the format of a ‘cultural Ramstein’.