As a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, 1062 cultural heritage monuments were damaged

This was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy .

According to him, from February 24, 2022 to April 25, 2024, the Russian Federation destroyed or damaged 1,062 cultural heritage sites. Of these, 123 are monuments of national importance, 864 are of local importance, and 75 are newly discovered cultural heritage sites.

“In particular, monuments of architecture and urban planning make up 316 objects, architecture - 307, history - 226, architecture and urban planning, history - 61, archeology - 56, architecture, history - 39, monumental art - 21, urban planning and monumental decorative art - 19, architecture, monumental art – 7, urban planning – 5, science and technology, architecture – 2, architecture and urban planning, monumental art – 1, architecture, landscape art – 1; architecture and landscape art – 1,” the MCIP clarified.

More cultural heritage monuments were damaged or destroyed in Kharkiv region (299), Kherson region (144), Donetsk region (125), Odesa region (115), Chernihiv region (71), as well as in the Kyiv region and Kyiv - 69.

In addition, cultural heritage was damaged in Mykolaiv - (44 attractions), Zaporizhzhya (44), Lviv (36), Dnipropetrovsk (34), Luhansk (30), Sumy (25), Khmelnytskyi (10), Poltava (6), Vinnytsia (4), Zhytomyr (4), Kirovohrad (1), Cherkasy (1) regions.