As a result of the Russian invasion, 642 religious objects were destroyed and damaged, most of them Ukrainian Orthodox Church churches

As a result of the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, at least 642 religious buildings were destroyed and damaged. Such data is provided by the Workshop of Academic Religious Studies.

Since the end of February 2022, churches of most major denominations and faiths have been mutilated on the territory of Ukraine.

According to the number of destructions, after Ukrainian Orthodox Church churches, Protestant houses of prayer and shrines of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

During the battles for the Kyiv region, the Orthodox church, built in 1870 in the village of Lukyanivka, 63 km from the capital, burned down. It contained an iconostasis and an 18th-century Deisus icon depicting the Virgin and John the Baptist next to Christ.

During his visit to the Vatican, His Beatitude Sviatoslav presented the Pontiff with a symbolic gift — a fragment of a Russian mine that destroyed the facade of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Irpen in March.

In the urban-type village of Makaryv in the Kyiv region, the occupiers shot the head of Ivan the Terrible on the icon in the local church.

In the spring of 2022, the Russians destroyed a church in the village of Bobryk, Brovar district, which had been painted only two years earlier.