The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy continues to record damage to cultural infrastructure in Ukraine as a result of full-scale russian aggression. Thus, as of 25 June 2024, 2,013 cultural institutions (including cultural institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy and other central executive bodies), excluding cultural heritage monuments, suffered damage. Of these, 332 were destroyed (16.5%).
The losses of state-owned cultural institutions amounted to 32 objects (13% of the total number of institutions in the basic network at the national level), and communal institutions – 1,981 objects (6% of the total number of institutions in the basic network at the local level).
The largest group of cultural institutions that suffered damage or destruction are community centres (48.2% of the total number of cultural infrastructure institutions that suffered damage).
In total, the following were affected:
Cultural institutions were destroyed in 286 territorial communities (19.5% of the total number of communities), in Vinnytsia (3.2%), Dnipropetrovsk (20.9%), Donetsk (87%), Zhytomyr (17%), Zakarpattia (2%), Zaporizhzhia (36%), Kyiv (27, 1%), Luhansk (46.2%), Lviv (4.1%), Mykolaiv (44.2%), Odesa (9.9%), Poltava (2%), Sumy (56.9%), Kharkiv (55.4%), Kherson (43%), Khmelnytskyi (17%), Cherkasy (6.1%), Chernihiv (47.4%), Kirovohrad (2%) regions and the city of Kyiv.
As of the end of June 2024, almost the entire territory of Luhansk and significant parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson regions are still under temporary occupation, making it impossible to calculate the exact number of cultural institutions affected by the hostilities and occupation.