Ukraine accused Russia of nearly five hundred war crimes against cultural heritage Ukrainian since the Russian invasion of the country began on February 24.
“As of August 10, 2022, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy recorded 464 episodes considered Russian war crimes. against Ukrainian cultural heritage“, said today the spokesman for that organization, Oleksandr Tkachenko.
He accused Russia of fighting against Ukrainian cultural identity and of “deliberately attacking cultural objects“, stressing that “unfortunately, this happens almost every day”.
Just last night, Russian strikes damaged a cultural center and an art school in Marhanets, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, he said.
In the accounts of the kyiv authorities, since the beginning of the invasion, 23 monuments of national importance, 109 of local importance, 108 objects that were in historical buildings and seven recently discovered objects of cultural heritage were destroyed or damaged.
Russian strikes destroyed or damaged 361 art objects and cultural institutionsaccuses Ukraine.
In the report published in the first week of August, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) counted more than 170 monuments and historical sites of the Ukrainian cultural heritage, affected by the war.
UNESCO: More than 170 cultural heritage sites affected by war
In total, 171 places were affected, many of them destroyed, from museums to university facilities, from libraries to churches and cathedrals, from schools to historical and cultural buildings, such as the Churches of the Nativity and the Holy Trinity, in kyiv, the The Holocaust Memorial in Kharkiv, the Odessa Museum of Fine Arts and the Mariupol and Melitopol museums, both subject to destruction and looting, as reported and verified by the Ukrainian authorities in a May report by The New York Times.
To date, no site classified as World Heritage by UNESCO”appears to have been damaged“, the organization said.
Source: Observadora
