The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine published updated statistics of cultural monuments damaged by Russia

On January 9, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine published updated statistics of Ukrainian cultural monuments that were damaged or destroyed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia.

In the period from February 24, 2022 to December 25, 2023, 872 objects of cultural heritage were destroyed or damaged in 17 regions of Ukraine, the ICRC reported.

It was specified there that among them are 120 monuments of national importance, 682 of local importance and 70 newly discovered ones.

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.

According to the ministry, 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 significance); Donetsk region – 111 (including 12 of national importance); Kherson region – 86 (including 12 of national significance); Chernihiv region – 70 (including 27 of national importance); Kyiv region – 69 (including 16 monuments of national significance);

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 of Ukraine constantly updates data on the damage or destruction of cultural heritage objects as a result of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia.

Former Deputy Minister Kateryna Chueva noted that the exact figures 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 combat zones have been demined and become directly accessible for 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. In early August last year, it released a list confirming the damage to 274 cultural sites since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.