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1,333 cultural monuments damaged in Ukraine due to Russian aggression

In Ukraine, as a result of full-scale Russian aggression, 1,333 cultural heritage sites and 2,185 cultural infrastructure facilities were damaged. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine. According to the information provided by the regional and Kyiv city military administrations, 78 cultural heritage sites in Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions were damaged in January. The total number of damaged cultural heritage sites in Ukraine as of the end of January 2025 is 1,333. Of these, 131 are of national importance, 1,126 are of local importance, and 76 are newly discovered. In total, cultural monuments were damaged in 18 regions and the city of Kyiv, in particular in Kharkiv region - 324, Kherson - 255, Donetsk - 164, Odesa - 137, Chernihiv - 65, Kyiv region and the city of Kyiv - 83, Lviv - 60, Zaporizhzhia - 58, Dnipro - 49, Mykolaiv - 46, Sumy - 33, Luhansk - 32, Khmelnytskyi - 10, Poltava - 6, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr - 4, Kirovohrad - 2, Cherkasy - 1. In addition, according to the MCSC, 2,185 cultural infrastructure facilities were damaged, of which 409 were destroyed (18.7%). In general, the greatest losses and damage to cultural infrastructure occurred in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy regions. The largest group of cultural infrastructure facilities that have been damaged or destroyed are clubs (48.3% of the total number of cultural facilities that have been damaged). In total, damaged: 1,056 clubs, 784 libraries, 166 art education institutions, 120 museums and galleries, 39 theaters, cinemas and philharmonic halls, 7 nature reserves, 9 parks and zoos, and four circuses. Clubs, libraries, museums, and theaters in 302 territorial communities (20.6% of all TCs in Ukraine) were destroyed in Vinnytsia (3.2% of TCs), Dnipro (21%), Donetsk (87%), Zhytomyr (17%), Zakarpattia (2%), and Zaporizhzhia (40.3%), Kirovograd (4%), Kyiv (28.6%), Luhansk (46.2%), Lviv (5.5%), Mykolaiv (44.2%), Odesa (10%), Poltava (4%), Sumy (64.7%), Kharkiv (59%), Kherson (43%), Khmelnytsky (17%), Cherkasy (6.1%), Chernihiv (51%) regions and Kyiv. The ministry added that as of early February 2025, almost the entire territory of Luhansk and significant parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions are still temporarily occupied by Russian troops. This makes it impossible to calculate the exact number of damaged cultural heritage sites. As reported by Ukrinform, on January 31, Russian troops fired three ballistic missiles at the center of Odesa. According to Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov, about 15 cultural heritage sites were damaged. Read also: Russian oligarchs continue business in Netherlands despite sanctions – media The post 1,333 cultural monuments damaged in Ukraine due to Russian aggression appeared first on Freedom.