The occupiers destroyed or damaged more than 550 monuments of Ukraine's cultural heritage during the full-scale war.
This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Among the damaged monuments are the building of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre, the wooden church of St. George, the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Museum, and more. The historic centre of Chernihiv and the Holocaust memorial were destroyed as well, and paintings by Maria Prymachenko were lost.
The Council reminds that 109,930 monuments are under state protection, and more than 130,000 cultural heritage sites are on the state account. Some of them are also on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Previously. Mind reported that 11,000 destroyed objects had been restored in Kyiv Oblast over the year. In total, there were about 27,000 such buildings in the region.