The devastation of Ukraine’s cultural heritage – historic buildings, monuments, libraries, and churches – is an inherent and intentional element of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has already recorded 331 Russian war crimes against cultural heritage as of May 14, 2022. As a result of shelling, rocket and bomb attacks, 110 cultural heritage sites were destroyed and damaged.
We picked just several of the cases when Ukrainian cultural heritage suffered from Russian aggression, look at the graphics below to learn more about each site:
