As of the end of June 2026, 1,949 cultural heritage sites and 2,576 cultural infrastructure facilities had been destroyed or damaged as a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Among the damaged cultural heritage sites, 183 are designated as being of national significance, 1,570 as being of local significance, and 196 as newly discovered. A total of 46 cultural heritage sites have been completely destroyed.
Damage has been recorded in 18 regions. The sites that suffered the most damage were in Kharkiv Oblast (356), Kherson Oblast (305), Odesa Oblast (208), Donetsk Oblast (225), and Kyiv Oblast and the city of Kyiv (295).
This was reported by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
In June, as a result of yet another Russian attack on Kyiv, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Ukraine’s most significant spiritual and cultural landmarks—the Assumption Cathedral at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve—was damaged, the Dovzhenko Film Studio, the Mystetskyi Arsenal museum complex, the Kharkiv Art Museum, the Dnipropetrovsk House of Organ and Chamber Music, and others.
At the same time, 2,576 cultural infrastructure sites were damaged as a result of shelling and hostilities, 540 of which were completely destroyed.
The cultural infrastructure suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and its partners continue to work together to address the consequences of the destruction and restore Ukraine’s cultural potential.