The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy continues to document damages to cultural infrastructure objects in Ukraine due to the full-scale russian aggression. According to information provided by regional and Kyiv city military administrations, the total number of affected cultural institutions increased by 11 units in July. The most damage was observed in cultural institutions in Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Sumy regions, and Kyiv.
As of July 25, 2024, 2,024 cultural institutions (including those under the Ministry of Culture and other central executive bodies) have been affected, excluding cultural heritage sites; of these, 334 have been destroyed (16.5%).
The losses for state-owned cultural institutions amounted to 35 objects (14% of the total number of basic network institutions at the national level), while municipal-owned institutions experienced losses of 1,989 objects (6% of the total number of basic network institutions at the local level).
The largest group of affected cultural institutions are clubs, which account for 48.2% of all damaged cultural infrastructure.
The total number of affected institutions is as follows:
– Creative hubs: 974
– Libraries: 720
– Artistic education institutions: 157
– Museums and galleries: 117
– Theaters, cinemas, and philharmonic halls: 37
– Parks, zoos, reserves: 16
– Circuses: 3
Cultural institutions have been damaged in 290 territorial communities (19.7% of the total number of the amalgamated territorial communities) in Vinnytsia (3.2%), Dnipropetrovsk (20.9%), Donetsk (87%), Zhytomyr (17%), Zakarpattia (2%), Zaporizhzhia (37.3%), Kyiv (27.1%), Luhansk (46.2%), Lviv (5.5%), Mykolaiv (44.2%), Odesa (9.9%), Poltava (2%), Sumy (58.8%), Kharkiv (57.1%), Kherson (43%), Khmelnytskyi (17%), Cherkasy (6.1%), Chernihiv (47.4%), Kirovohrad (2%) regions, and Kyiv city.
As of the end of July 2024, almost the entire territory of Luhansk and significant parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions remain under temporary occupation, which prevents an accurate assessment of the number of cultural institutions affected by the hostilities and occupation.
