From February 24, 2022, to July 20, 2023, Russian forces damaged 116 religious sites, 27 museums, 95 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 19 monuments, 12 libraries, and one archive in Ukraine.
This is reported by UNESCO.
According to the Sumy Regional State Administration Among these damaged cultural sites, 12 are located in the Sumy region.
The UNESCO list includes the Okhtyrka Local History Museum, the architectural monument Former People’s House (1911-1914), a monument of national architectural significance – the residence of L.E. Kenig (1911), the monument in honor of the 183rd Tank Brigade (WWII), the Okhtyrka City Council building (20th-century construction), the locomotive depot “Smorodyne” (built in 1877), the main house-museum of the estate of L.E. Kenig (late 18th century – 1870; part of the Trostyanets Museum and Exhibition Center), the fraternal burial of Soviet soldiers and a monument in the village of Velyka Pysarivka, the local architectural monument – the F. Kuril merchant’s store (built in 1908) in Trostyanets, the fraternal burial of Soviet soldiers (1943, 1959) in Bytytsia, the Soldiers’ Village Library, and the Trostyanets Forest Research Station Museum in Trostyanets.
As previously reported, a UNESCO mission arrived in Odessa to assess the scale of destruction after the attacks by Russia.
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