The blow to the printing house in Kharkov, inflicted by the Russian Nazis on May 23, will seriously affect the entire book publishing industry.
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Radio Liberty spoke with the owner of the Factor-Pechat printing house, Sergei Polituchy.
On air, he noted that due to the destruction of the printing house, the total capacity of the publishing house in Ukraine could decrease “by at least 30-40%.”
85-90% of all books that are printed in Ukraine are printed in Kharkov, says Polituchy.
Now all these enterprises work not in three shifts, but in one. The needs of publishing houses will now be more difficult to satisfy, and the process of printing books, including textbooks, will be slowed down.
And thus, the very process of printing books, including the textbooks that we printed – I don’t know, perhaps, up to 50% of all textbooks that were printed in the state. And because now I don’t know how we’ll do it tomorrow. And I understand that without the support of both the international community and the state, this issue will be very difficult to resolve, the businessman said.
However, according to him, even with the help of resuming the work of the printing house, it may take a lot of time, at least several months.
In Kharkov, the identities of all those killed as a result of the Russian strikes on the printing house on May 23 have been established, said the head of the investigation department of the Kharkov region police, Sergei Bolvinov.
According to him, four people – three women and a man – were identified from DNA samples: a printer, two typists and a stacker-packer were killed.
In total, during the attacks of Russian troops on Kharkov on May 23, seven people were killed and 21 people were injured.
Source: Racurs
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