yana stepanenko, who is growing up and will need new prostheses every year, remains their patient.o shudlyak, yurii dankevich, for the voice of america from lviv. fire extinguishers, generators, ministations with power supply, professional scanners. since the start of the full-scale war, ukrainian museums, libraries and cultural centers have regularly received assistance from the smithsonian institution's american cultural heritage rescue initiative project, skray. how american museum workers helped ukrainians save the archaeological collections of the kharkiv karazi institute. and a rare book of the kyiv agricultural academy library, yaryna matviychuk and vyacheslav filyushkin learned. one of the main challenges for of ukrainian museum workers during the war is that the war has been going on for too long, says cory wegener, director and founder of the smithsonian edge project. corey is a former member of the united states armed forces. during the war in iraq, she worked in archives in a war zone, and also coordinated cultural preservation efforts. heritage of syria, haiti , egypt,