The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications is documenting damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine due to russian aggression.
Regional and Kyiv city military administrations report that 33 cultural heritage sites were damaged in December in the Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Mykolaiv, and Kharkiv regions, as well as in Kyiv.
As of the end of December 2024, a total of 1,255 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine have been damaged. This includes 125 sites of national significance, 1,055 of local significance, and 75 newly identified sites.
Damage has occurred in 18 regions and Kyiv, including the following: Kharkiv region — 324, Kherson — 180, Donetsk — 164, Odesa — 137, Chernihiv — 65, Kyiv region and Kyiv city — 83, Zaporizhzhia — 57, Mykolaiv — 44, Dnipropetrovsk — 49, Lviv — 60, Sumy — 33, Luhansk — 32, Khmelnytskyi — 10, Poltava — 6, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr — 4 each, Kirovohrad — 2, and Cherkasy — 1.
As of the end of December 2024, nearly all of Luhansk and significant portions of the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions are still under temporary occupation, which prevents an accurate assessment of the cultural heritage sites affected by military actions.
On January 1, 2025, russia carried out another missile attack, damaging cultural heritage sites in central Kyiv.
