The Ministry of Culture has published updated statistics of cultural monuments damaged by Russia
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On Tuesday, January 9, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy published updated statistics of Ukrainian cultural monuments that were damaged or destroyed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia.
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During the period from February 24, 2022 to December 25, 2023, 17 regions of Ukraine were destroyed or damaged 872 objects of cultural heritagereported MKIP.
They specified what was among them 120 sights of national importance, 682 of local importance and 70 newly discovered
In particular, among the damaged and destroyed objects of architectural monuments are 279 objects, architecture and urban planning – 255, history – 203, architecture, history – 33, monumental art – 19, urban planning, monumental art – 17, archeology – 18 , architecture and urban planning, history – 38, urban planning – 5, science and technology – 2, garden and park art – 1, architecture and urban planning, monumental art – 1, architecture, monumental art – 1.
| 872 monuments of cultural heritage were damaged due to Russian aggression. Photo: MKIP |
According to the ministry, the monuments were damaged or destroyed by the occupiers in 17 regions:
- Kharkiv region – 216 (including 10 of national importance)
- Odesa region – 119 (including 28 of national importance)
- Donetsk region – 111 (including 12 of national importance)
- Kherson region – 86 (including 12 of national importance)
- Chernihiv region – 70 (including 27 of national importance)
- Kyiv region – 69 (including 16 monuments of national importance)
- Zaporizhzhia region – 38
- Lviv region – 33 (including 2 of national importance)
- Dnipropetrovsk region – 32 (including 1 of national importance)
- Luhansk region – 30
- Sumy region – 25 (including 5 of national importance)
- Mykolaiv region – 22 (including 3 of national importance)
- Khmelnytskyi region – 10 (including 1 of national importance)
- Vinnytsia region – 4 (including 1 of national importance)
- Poltava region – 4 (including 1 of national importance)
- Zhytomyr region – 2 (including 1 of national importance)
- Kirovohrad region – 1
The Ministry of Culture constantly updates data on the damage or destruction of cultural heritage objects as a result of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia.
Earlier, former Deputy Minister Kateryna Chuyeva noted that exact numbers of damaged objects will be available only after the end of hostilities: “We will be able to see the full picture after the end of the war and only after most of the war zones have been demined and become directly accessible to researchers. As of today, we can survey and fully document mainly those objects that are located in the de-occupied territories and are relatively far from the line of fire“.
The international organization UNESCO keeps its statistics of damaged cultural objects in Ukraine. At the beginning of August last year, she released a list in which confirmed damage to 274 cultural objects since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia.
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