On the Ukrainian territory before the war, there were more than 5,000 museums, 65 historical-cultural reserves and some 170,000 monuments, including seven UNESCO World Heritage sites. During the nine months of the war, more than 800 incidents of destruction by Russian troops on Ukraine’s cultural heritage were documented. In this regard, on 24 November, the...

Vadym Khlupyanets, ballet dancer of the Kyiv National Academic Operetta’s Theatre fell in combat for Ukraine. The artist lost his life near Bakhmut. He was merely 26 years old. Vadym Khlupyanets was born in 1996, graduated from the Kyiv Choreographic College (Kyyivsʹkyy Khoreohrafichnyy Koledzh), and became a ballet dancer at the Kyiv National Academic Operetta’s...