Kherson Oblast is among the three regions of Ukraine with the largest losses of cultural heritage since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. According to official data, 297 cultural heritage sites have been recorded as destroyed in the region.
This is reported by the Ministry of Cultures of Ukraine.
Across Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war 1640 cultural heritage sites and 2446 cultural infrastructure objects have been damaged.
The most affected monuments are in Kharkiv Oblast — 344, Kherson Oblast — 297, Odesa Oblast — 182, Donetsk Oblast — 175, as well as in Kyiv Oblast and the city of Kyiv — 163.
Among the damaged cultural heritage objects 153 have national significance status, 1333 — local, and another 154 — recently identified.
At the same time, as a result of hostilities 2446 cultural infrastructure objects were affected. The greatest losses were suffered by cultural institutions in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv oblasts.
The Ministry of Culture notes that due to the temporary occupation of a significant part of the territories of Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson oblasts an accurate accounting of destroyed objects is currently impossible.
Recently the Russians shelled the grounds of the church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Korabel microdistrict in Kherson.