Museums, palaces and churches: The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has published the list of sites ruined by Russian armed forces.
VIKTORIIA ANDRIEIEVA – WEDNESDAY, 16 MARCH 2022
Russian occupying forces continue to destroy cities, kill people and wipe out the cultural heritage of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has published a preliminary list of sites destroyed or damaged by the aggressor.
"Not only is Russia strategically destroying Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, but also Ukraine's cultural heritage.
Museums, architectural monuments, palaces, churches are being targeted by Russian rockets and shelling.
After all, Putin's real goal is to destroy the Ukrainian nation, culture, history and identity", the Ministry said.
PHOTO CAPTION Serhii Laievskyi's photo
The list includes:
- The building of Okhtyrka Museum of Local History
- MUSEUM OF UKRAINIAN ANTIQUITIES in Chernihiv
- Shchors cinema in Chernihiv
- The Vasylivka Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve "Popov Manor House" in the Zaporizhzhia region
- Sviatohirsk Lavra (monastery)
- The building of Kharkiv National University
- The "Slovo" Building in Kharkiv
- Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (19th century) in the Zhytomyr region
- The Museum of Local History in the town of Ivankiv, Kyiv region, which held 25 works of the Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko.
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, together with the Centre for Strategic Communications, continues to collect evidence of the barbarism of the Russian occupying forces regarding cultural heritage.
Photos or video evidence of destruction in all regions of Ukraine can be submitted via this website.
We would like to remind you that The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has launched a platform where Ukrainians can tell foreigners about the war.
