“They are barbarians,” 80-year-old Mustafa Dzhemilev tells the Kyiv Independent on Sept. 2, as he assesses the damage caused to the Islamic Cultural Center in Kyiv by a Russian missile attack in the early hours of the morning. “If they targeted a children’s hospital, why wouldn’t they destroy a cultural center?” he adds, referencing the attack on Okhmatdyt, Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, on July 8. The Islamic Cultural Center is a prominent hub for Ukrainian Muslims and is considered a main religious location for Crimean Tatar Muslims in the country outside of Russian-occupied Crimea. …
