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2,109 cultural infrastructure facilities damaged or destroyed due to russian aggression

Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, posted 06 November 2024 17:16

The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine continues to record damages to cultural infrastructure facilities across Ukraine due to russia’s full-scale aggression. As of 25 October 2024, a total of 2,109 cultural infrastructure facilities (including cultural institutions under the Ministry and other central executive bodies), excluding heritage sites, have been damaged. Of these, 368 (17.45%) have been destroyed.

Total losses for state-owned cultural institutions amount to 37 units (14%), while those for municipally owned institutions total 2,072 units (6%). Overall, the greatest damage to cultural infrastructure has been recorded in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk regions.

The largest group of damaged or destroyed cultural infrastructure facilities consists of creative hubs, accounting for 48.3% of all affected cultural institutions.

In total, the following have been impacted:

  • creative hubs – 1,018;
  • libraries – 750;
  • art education institutions – 163;
  • museums and galleries – 120;
  • theaters, cinemas, and philharmonic halls– 38;
  • reserves – 7;
  • parks and zoos – 9;
  • circuses – 4.

Creative hubs, libraries, museums, and theaters have suffered damage across 297 amalgamated communities (20.2% of the total number of amalgamated communities) in the following regions: Vinnytsia (3.2%), Dnipropetrovsk (20%), Donetsk (87%), Zhytomyr (17%), Zakarpattia (2%), Zaporizhzhia (40.3%), Kirovohrad (2%), Kyiv (27.1%), Luhansk (46.2%), Lviv (5.5%), Mykolaiv (44.2%), Odesa (9.9%), Poltava (4%), Sumy (62.7%), Kharkiv (58.9%), Kherson (43%), Khmelnytskyi (17%), Cherkasy (6.1%), Chernihiv (49%) regions, and in the city of Kyiv.

As of late October 2024, nearly all of Luhansk region and significant parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions remain under temporary occupation, making it impossible to accurately assess the number of cultural institutions affected by hostilities and occupation.

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