Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko offered his resignation on Thursday after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the lawmaker for overspending at a time when the focus should be fending off Russia’s invasion.
“In times of war like this, the maximum state attention, and therefore state resources, should be spent on defense. This is an obvious thing,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address to the nation.
“Museums, cultural centers, symbols, TV series, all of this is…