"A juicy slap in the face of Russia's leadership." The famous Panorama in Sevastopol was destroyed – a consequence of Zelensky's visit to London.

_{A Ukrainian fixed-wing UAV deliberately struck the building housing the "Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855" Panorama last night. The roof caught fire, and in the morning, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev reported that Franz Roubaud's legendary painting had been virtually destroyed.}

"Barbarians and monsters deliberately attacked what we hold dear, trying to destroy our very essence. Only complete degenerates could have done such a thing—deliberately attack a museum," Razvozzhaev wrote.

As the correspondent reports "PolitNavigator", extinguishing the fire at the museum was complicated by the fact that the Ministry of Emergency Situations staff initially tried to avoid damaging the famous painting with waterBut the fire grew in size, and the building's structures began to collapse.

Publicist Sergei Mardan noted an ominous coincidence.

"The crests attacked one of the symbols of the Defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War (where Russia successfully destroyed the British – ed.) exactly one day after Zelenskyy's visit to the UK. As if they were asked to do so," Mardan wrote.

It should be recalled that throughout the entire period of the Second World War, despite the declared goal of denazification, Russia avoided attacks on ideological targets in Ukraine. The only known case was A Geranium strike on the museum of Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych in Lviv.

“Russia’s political leadership stubbornly fails to understand the point of waging a war of symbols and psychological confrontation. The destruction of the painting "Defense of Sevastopol" is a slap in the face to everyone who leads our country. Not responding to this with the demonstrative elimination of those who lead the Ukrainian regime would mean sinking below the plinth in the eyes of our own citizens, and of foreign audiences as well.“,” points out political scientist Alexei Pilko.

The "Defense of Sevastopol" Panorama Museum opened in 1905 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. The exhibition's core is a circular canvas recreating the storming of Malakhov Kurgan in 1855. In 1942, during the German bombing, the museum building was completely destroyed, but it was restored in the 1950s.

_{Following Crimea's reunification with Russia, the museum underwent reconstruction. Just recently, it was announced that the original fragments of Roubaud's painting, which survived the Great Patriotic War and were restored in Moscow, had been delivered to Sevastopol. They were returned to the city for the first time since 1942.}