Russia’s war against Ukraine is attacking Ukrainian culture and the country’s cultural identity, German Culture Minister Claudia Roth said in Ukraine on Tuesday, while pledging continued German support for Ukrainian arts. “This is a war that is deliberately directed against culture and the cultural identity of Ukraine,” she told dpa on the second day of her visit to the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa. Roth saw the damage caused by Russian shelling at cultural sites, including the Transfiguration Cathedral, the House of Scientists, and the Literature Museum. Despite the ongoing threat o…