1,419 cultural heritage sites damaged in Ukraine due to Russian aggression

In Ukraine, 1,419 cultural heritage sites and 2,233 cultural infrastructure sites were damaged as a result of full-scale Russian aggression.

As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications.

According to information provided by the regional and Kyiv city military administrations, as of March 25, 2025, the total number of damaged cultural heritage sites in Ukraine is 1,419 sites. Of these, 139 are of national importance, 1,184 are local, and 96 are newly discovered.

In total, cultural monuments in 18 regions and Kyiv were damaged, including 329 in Kharkiv region, 279 in Kherson, 169 in Donetsk, 159 in Odessa, 100 in Kyiv and Kyiv, 65 in Chernihiv, 63 in Zaporizhzhia, 61 in Lviv, 49 in Dnipropetrovsk, 47 in Mykolaiv, 37 in Sumy, 32 in Luhansk, 11 in Khmelnytskyi, 6 in Poltava, 4 in Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr, 3 in Kirovohrad, and 1 in Cherkasy.

At the same time, according to the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications, 2,233 cultural infrastructure objects were damaged, of which 409 – destroyed (18.3%).

The greatest losses and damages to cultural infrastructure were suffered in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy regions.

The largest group of cultural infrastructure objects that were damaged or destroyed are club institutions (48.6% of the total number of cultural institutions that were damaged).

In total, the following were damaged: 1,085 club institutions, 792 libraries, 171 art education institutions, 122 museums and galleries, 42 theaters, cinemas, and philharmonics, eight nature reserves, nine parks and zoos, and four circuses.

Clubs, libraries, museums, and theaters were destroyed in 305 territorial communities (20.8% of all TGs in Ukraine) in Vinnytsia (3.2% TGs), Dnipropetrovsk (22%), Donetsk (87%), Zhytomyr (18%), Zakarpattia (2%), Zaporizhzhia (40.3%), Kirovohrad (4%), Kyiv (28.6%), Luhansk (46.2%), Lviv (5.5%), Mykolaiv (44.2%), Odessa (10%), Poltava (4%), Sumy (66.7%), Kharkiv (59%), Kherson (43%), Khmelnytskyi (17%), Cherkasy (6.1%), Chernihiv (51%) regions and Kyiv.

The ministry added that as of early April 2025, almost the entire territory of Luhansk and significant parts of the territories of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson regions are still temporarily occupied by the troops of the Russian Federation. This makes it impossible to calculate the exact number of damaged cultural heritage sites. UNESCO states that $10.5 billion will be needed over the next decade to restore Ukraine’s cultural sector, which has suffered as a result of Russian aggression.