As a result of a Russian rocket fire, the National Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the village of Skovorodynivka, Kharkiv Oblast (region), has been burnt down. This has undoubtedly been one of the most severe losses to the Ukrainian heritage since the beginning of the war. The museum was located in the 18th century manor...
On 8 May, a Russian shelling damaged the Jewish cemetery in the small historic town of Hlukhiv (Glukhov), located on the territory of a national reserve in the Sumy Oblast (region). The historical necropolis contains around one and a half thousand graves from the 19th and 20th centuries. Victims of the pogrom (massacre) of 1918...
One of the first pictures taken by photographers in the town of Borodianka near Kiev ravaged by the Russians depicts ruins of a residential building. It shows remains of walls and a kitchen cabinet with an intact ceramic figurine of a cockerel standing in it. The cockerel is a type of jug made at the...
he 6th Meeting of the Informal European Network of Committees for UNESCO is taking place in Reykjavik, 8-10 May 2022 under the theme “From Strategy to Action”. The opening plenary session of the meeting was devoted to assistance to Ukraine. It was virtually attended by Artur Oganov, Secretary General of the Ukrainian Committee for UNESCO....
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has already recorded more than 300 cases of destruction of the Ukrainian cultural heritage by Russians. The collected data is posted on https://culturecrimes.mkip.gov.ua/ and comes from 12 regions of the country. Most destruction has been reported in Kharkiv region (including Kharkiv itself), Donetsk region (mainly in...
