Ukraine to present The Hedgehog Temple war memorial at Burning Man festival

At this year's Burning Man festival, the Ukrainian team will present a war memorial called The Hedgehog Temple. 

The head of the Ukrainian Burning Man Community, Yaroslav Korets, has announced this. 

The Hedgehog Temple is an art object in the shape of a large hedgehog made from anti-tank hedgehogs as one of the symbols of Ukraine's defence during the full-scale war.

"The idea was on the surface because the anti-tank hedgehog is one of the symbols of defence, and I don't remember how many we made at the beginning of the invasion. How to combine the non-military paradigm of the Burning Man participants with our "everyday life" and remind people once again that every day in Ukraine, people die from guns and missiles, very often those who had nothing to do with weapons before February 24, sat in their offices, workshops, made designs or films, lived their beautiful lives," Korets wrote on his Facebook page.

The creators of The Hedgehog Temple war memorial dedicate it to Ukrainians who "will never be able to go to Burning Man again because the war took their lives."

Burning Man is an annual eight-day independent art event taking place in the US state of Nevada.