Marek Lemiesz, an expert of Poland's National Heritage Office, reported this with reference to the information provided by Ukraine's Ministry of Culture.
“In Chernihiv, where we work, solely thanks to the work of my Ukrainian friends who collected data on the destruction, there were 38 objects that were officially on the list of destroyed, and now we have doubled the list on this list. I would like to remind you that in Chernihiv the Russian military formations were deployed for less than 5 weeks,” he noted.
Marek Lemiesz emphasized that, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Culture, the Russian troops destroyed at least 553 objects of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
“Among them, 234 have already been verified by UNESCO. This is probably only the tip of the iceberg,” he added.
In addition, the expert emphasized that despite keeping records of losses, it is impossible to fully assess the extent of the damage caused by the Russian military to Ukraine. At the same time, the destruction of monuments and cultural objects is accompanied by the looting of museum collections and the destruction of Ukrainian books.
“If we take into account the type of military actions that they (the Russian forces - ed.) resort to during the fighting in Ukraine, which is aviation, bombing; if we take into account the Russian strategy, which is largely based on the concentration of massive artillery fire, then we can say that in fact the conflict in Ukraine, if we are talking about cultural heritage, cannot be compared with anything, with any armed conflict after 1945,” Marek Lemiesz said.