Russia damages 1,096 objects of Ukrainian cultural heritage

The press service of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy reports.

According to the Ministry of Culture, the Russians damaged 121 cultural sites of national importance and 892 of local importance. There are also 83 newly discovered damaged monuments.

"Repeated hits to previously damaged cultural heritage sites occurred in the Dnipropetrovsk region. New ones - in the Kharkiv, Kherson, and Sumy regions," the statement says.

In total, the monuments in 18 regions were damaged:

• in the Kharkiv region - 314,
• Kherson region - 150,
• Donetsk region - 125,
• Odesa region - 116,
• Chernihiv region - 69,
• Kyiv region and Kyiv city - 69,
• Zaporizhzhia region - 49,
• Mykolaiv region - 45,
• Dnipropetrovsk region - 39,
• Lviv region - 36,
• Luhansk region - 31,
• Sumy region - 27,
• Khmelnytskyi region - 10,
• Poltava region - 6,
• Vinnytsia region - 4,
• Zhytomyr region - 4,
• Kirovohrad region - 1,
• Cherkasy region - 1.

"As of the end of July 2024, almost the entire territory of Luhansk and significant parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions are still under temporary occupation. This makes it impossible to calculate the exact number of damaged cultural heritage monuments that have suffered during the hostilities and occupation," the Ministry of Culture added.

• On May 20, a 100-year-old building of the Zaliznychnyk cultural center, an architectural monument, was destroyed in Izium, Kharkiv region, as a result of a Russian attack.