Based on my research, here is an analysis of the claim "The Ukrainian government is burning books":

Reasoning:

• The claim appears to conflate Ukraine's policies to remove Russian-language books and books from Russia with actual "book burning." While Ukraine has enacted laws restricting Russian books and removed millions of books from libraries, this does not equate to an official government policy of burning books¹².
• The Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) banned imports of books from Russia and Belarus in 2022, and required screening of Russian-language publications from other countries for anti-Ukrainian content before distribution². However, this is a legal restriction, not a book-burning campaign.
• Reports indicate that 19 million books (including 11 million Russian-language books) were removed from Ukrainian libraries, but these were "written off" and deaccessioned, not burned. The Ukrainian government stated there were "recommendations to write off and remove books whose authors supported armed aggression against Ukraine"¹.
• Multiple viral images and videos purporting to show "Ukrainian book burning" have been fact-checked and found to be misrepresented. A widely circulated photo was actually taken in 2010 and shows Russian nationalists burning Ukrainian history textbooks in Crimea, not Ukrainians burning books³.
• The primary documented destruction of books in the Ukraine conflict has been Russia's systematic attacks on Ukrainian publishing houses, printing facilities, and libraries. Russia has destroyed 172 libraries and nearly 2 million books according to the Ukrainian Book Institute, and has targeted Ukrainian cultural identity through the destruction of books⁴⁵.
• Some media outlets have documented individual instances of books being physically destroyed in Ukraine, but framing this as "the Ukrainian government is burning books" exaggerates and mischaracterizes official policy, which is removal and replacement, not incineration⁶⁷.

Overall validity: 15%

1. Fact Check: Has Ukraine Banned 19 Million Russian Books From its Libraries? - Newsweek
2. Russian book ban in Ukraine - Wikipedia
3. Photo shows Russia supporters burning Ukrainian history books in 2010 | AP News
4. Russia is bombing book publishers as Putin wages war on Ukrainian identity - Atlantic Council
5. ‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house | Ukraine | The Guardian
6. War and «bibliocide»: destruction and censorship of collections in Russia and Ukraine
7. ‘A Book Is a Quiet Weapon’ | Carol Schaeffer, Alex McBride | The New York Review of Books