47 sites destroyed, 1,943 damaged: Russia’s toll on Ukrainian heritage keeps climbing
Ukraine's culture ministry counts close to 2,000 heritage sites hit since 2022, with 90 more added in just the last month.
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EU says Russia’s Venice pavilion could cost Biennale €2 million grant. Its commissioner is daughter of FSB general
The European Commission officially recommended terminating the €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale after Russia's pavilion reopened.
Sweden signed heritage deal with Ukraine aboard ship that beat Russia in 1790. Choice wasn’t accident
Sweden and Ukraine signed a memorandum to document Cossack sites Russia's Kakhovka dam attack uncovered.
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.
Seven Hermitage museum employees named in illegal Crimean excavation report
Seven employees of Russia's State Hermitage Museum have been conducting illegal archaeological excavations in occupied Crimea for nearly a decade, according to a new human rights report.
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
Russian strike on historical centre of Odesa damages about 15 cultural heritage sites – Odesa mayor
Seven people were injured when a Russian missile hit Odesa's historic district, damaging the UNESCO-protected Philharmonic building.
How Russia is wiping out Ukraine’s UNESCO Heritage
The systematic demolition of Ukrainian cultural landmarks, from medieval cathedrals to ancient Greek ruins, forms part of a broader strategy to erase national identity through cultural warfare.
Russia destroyed over 800 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites
In an irony, Russian forces also took down monuments of historical Russian military figures like Admiral Ushakov and General Suvorov.
UNESCO training European authorities to save Ukrainian art
Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing the Associated Press, that the UN cultural organization is training law enforcement and judicial…
Russia destroys Golden Cabinet of historical Crimean Tatar palace in occupied Crimea
On 16 December, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Dzheppar informed that Russian occupation authorities…
Russians stole treasures from 40 Ukrainian museums, including golden diadem of the Huns
During the occupation of the South-Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Russian troops stole a golden diadem of the Huns…
“Hey Hey Rise Up”: Pink Floyd revived Ukrainian military anthem
German singer Marlaine Maas is the first artist to perform a cover of the anthem of the Ukrainian…
Making Russia answer for destroying cultural heritage in Ukraine
Human losses are justly viewed as the greatest tragedy of any war, the current war in Ukraine being…
Russia continues to plunder and destroy Crimea’s cultural heritage: 150 crimes documented by experts
Ukrainian historical experts have documented 150 violations of cultural heritage sites in occupied Crimea performed by the Russian…
Crimea was always a multicultural hodgepodge
Since Russia occupied Crimea in 2014, it has tried to obliterate Crimea’s diverse cultural heritage. But Crimean history…
Treasures stolen from Kyiv cathedrals in the 1930s discovered in State Historical Museum in Moscow
Sacred Altar and Pectoral Crosses Sacred Mitres and Crowns Excited by his find, Tymur Bobrovsky wrote the following…
Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko and his vyshyvanka shirts
It is known that Ivan Franko “differed from the other men in his circle by his original outfits…
Travel to Ukraine online — a tourist guide
Authentic Ukraine — the most comprehensive digital project about Ukraine Authentic Ukraine, without any doubt, is the most…