Since February 24, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has documented 300 episodes of Russian war crimes against the cultural heritage of Ukraine. This is stated in the message on the official website of the department..

The Ministry of Culture emphasizes that the enemy purposefully destroys everything Ukrainian, violating the legal norms of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954.

“The crimes of Russians against cultural heritage were recorded in 12 regions of Ukraine and Kyiv. The cultural heritage of Kharkiv region suffered the greatest destruction. Now 88 episodes have been recorded there, of which 75 are in Kharkiv itself and its environs.. 62 cases recorded in Donetsk region, 47 of them in Mariupol. In the Kyiv region, 49 objects suffered from the invaders, of which 34 were the most in the Buchansky district. In the Chernihiv region, a total of 33 cases of damage were recorded, of which 27 were in Chernihiv, in the Luhansk region - 21, of which 17 were in the Severodonetsk region, in the Sumy region - 20, of which 16 were in the Akhtyrsky region. Also, 8 episodes were recorded in the Zaporozhye region, 6 in the Zhytomyr region, 5 each in Kyiv and Kherson region, 1 each in Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and Odessa regions,” the ministry said..

Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko stressed that in total, Russians have already committed 300 war crimes against the cultural heritage of Ukraine and, unfortunately, continue to commit new ones every day..

“We continue to record every case of Russian military atrocities against the cultural heritage of Ukraine. Not a single shameful episode should be left without the attention of international criminal institutions.. Russians should know that punishment is inevitable,” the minister said..

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Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Kremlin does not believe in prosecution for war crimes..

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