Works Ukraine evacuated for safekeeping are caught not by Russian shelling but by Polish ownership claim in court
Heirs of Polish prince Andrzej Lubomirski are suing to keep two paintings from going home.
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“Putin droned Jesus Christ”: Far-right Trump ally who opposed Ukraine aid says she was wrong after visiting Kyiv
Laura Loomer, a far-right activist close to Trump, visited the drone-damaged Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and told her followers Russia struck the heart of Christianity after years of pro-Kremlin rhetoric.
Russia’s construction on Crimea’s only World Heritage site exposed 500,000 artifacts. UNESCO has just declared complex is in danger
UNESCO added Chersonesus Taurica in occupied Crimea to its List of World Heritage in Danger.
Russia strikes Kramatorsk daily. The city is putting its monuments out of harm’s way
The Donetsk Oblast city dismantled its monuments to prominent Ukrainians and sculptures, and shipped them outside the oblast for safekeeping.
Russia just got its Crimea looter back — and he’s not even pretending to lay low
Russia's Butyagin, freed in a Polish-Belarusian 5-for-5 prisoner exchange on Monday, told Russian state media within three days that he plans to resume the same illegal digs Ukraine charged him for.
Mikhail Piotrovsky runs Russia’s Hermitage Museum. EU just sanctioned him for legitimizing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine
Russia steals children. Russia steals history.
Russia’s war on culture: Moscow has struck 1,723 Ukrainian heritage sites since 2022
Russia is not destroying Ukrainian culture because the churches and libraries are in the way. It is destroying them because they are the evidence that Ukraine exists.
How Russia killed 16 Ukrainian civilians overnight — even as Ukraine intercepted 95% of its missiles and drones (updated)
Two waves of missiles and Shahed-type drones — 703 aerial weapons in total — hit Kyiv and other cities, killing a child and three adults in the capital, eight people in one Odesa building, and three more across central Ukraine.
Ukraine’s greatest philosopher visited this estate. Russia burned it down 242 years later
The Donets-Zakharzhevskyi estate in Velykyi Burluk — a locally protected architectural monument where Hryhorii Skovoroda once stayed — was completely consumed by fire on 7 April after two direct drone strikes; no casualties were reported.
Ukraine is asking world to sign appeal to expel Russia from UNESCO after 17th-century Lviv monastery attack
Ukraine's Institute of National Memory has launched an open appeal to UNESCO and international partners calling for Russia's expulsion from the organization.
Ukraine names 14 individuals behind Russia’s museum looting — including theft of Potemkin’s remains from Kherson cathedral
The stolen paintings appeared in a Moscow exhibition called "Always New Kakhovka."
Russia bombs Kyiv WWII museum beneath the Motherland monument
The site preserves memory of the fight against 20th-century aggression—Russia now repeats those crimes.
Poland extends detention of Hermitage archaeologist wanted by Ukraine for Crimea looting
First Russian held in Europe for Crimea heritage crimes
Italy faces backlash for hosting Russian conductor, who backs killings Putin’s regime, at UNESCO World Heritage palace
The July 27 event at the Royal Palace of Caserta has provoked outrage, with Ukrainian groups warning that hosting Putin’s favorite maestro desecrates cultural heritage and insults war victims.
This Ukrainian genius shaped the Russian empire. His lost opera could now shatter Putin’s
Putin's imperial pageantry rests on an uncomfortable truth: the sound of Russian power was made by a Ukrainian whose identity Moscow is trying to erase.
Russia destroying Ukraine’s cultural heritage is not a bug—it’s a feature of Putin’s war
Russian forces have damaged or destroyed 451 museums, libraries, and religious buildings since February 2022, following the Kremlin's official line that Ukrainian national identity is merely "a disorder of the mind."
Russian attacks damage over 1,300 cultural monuments across Ukraine, Culture Ministry says
The Russian invasion damaged 1,333 cultural heritage sites and 2,185 cultural infrastructure facilities across Ukraine, with January 2025 seeing 78 additional sites affected