The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy noted on December 19, 2022, that as a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, 1,132 objects of cultural infrastructure were damaged, not including monuments of cultural heritage.
Source: The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy
“The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy continues to record damage to cultural infrastructure objects in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression. 1,132 objects of cultural infrastructure were damaged, not including monuments of cultural heritage. Almost a third of them – 403 objects were completely destroyed,” said the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
It is noted that the greatest losses and damage to the cultural infrastructure were experienced in the Donetsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy and Kherson regions. This information is as of the beginning of December 2022.
“Russian troops continue to destroy everything Ukrainian. They target clubs, libraries, museums, theaters, philharmonic societies, art schools and colleges, as well as cultural heritage sites. To date, the number of cultural infrastructure objects that have suffered damage has increased almost 7 times compared to April 2022. At that time, 169 objects were damaged. Since the Kherson region was recently heroically liberated by Ukrainian soldiers, new facts of Russian vandalism were revealed to us. The total number of affected objects increased by another 75 units. These are colossal, unprecedented losses for our culture,” said Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy.
In particular, objects of cultural infrastructure were damaged in the territorial communities of the regions: 80% – Donetsk, 42% – Mykolaiv, 39% – Luhansk, 36% – Kharkiv, 35% – Sumy, 27% – Kyiv and the city of Kyiv, 25% – Zaporizhzhia, 16% – Kherson, 14% – Chernihiv, 12% – Dnipropetrovsk, 12% – Zhytomyr, 3% – Odesa, 3% – Cherkasy, 2% – Zakarpattia, 2% – Khmelnytskyi.
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