The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy reports that since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 1,132 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed or damaged.. This is stated on the official website of the department..

“ICIP continues to record damage to cultural infrastructure in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression. 1,132 cultural infrastructure facilities suffered damage, excluding cultural heritage sites. Of these, almost a third - 403 objects are completely destroyed. The cultural infrastructure suffered the greatest losses and losses in Donetsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Zaporozhye, Sumy and Kherson regions. This information is as of the beginning of December..

As stated in the press service, club establishments suffered the most at the hands of the occupiers.. This is 47% of the total number of cultural infrastructure institutions that suffered losses.

“Russian invaders continue to destroy everything Ukrainian. They target clubs, libraries, museums, theaters, philharmonic societies, art schools and colleges, and cultural heritage sites.. To date, the number of affected cultural infrastructure facilities has increased by almost 7 times compared to April 2022. Then 169 objects were damaged.. Since the Kherson region was heroically dismissed by our soldiers recently, new facts of Russian vandalism were revealed to us.. The total number of affected facilities increased by another 75 units. These are colossal, unprecedented losses of our culture,” said Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.

Clubs have been hit the hardest.. This is 47% of the total number of cultural infrastructure institutions that suffered losses.

A total of 532 clubs, 431 libraries, 61 museums and galleries, 17 theaters and philharmonic societies, 91 arts schools were affected.

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We will remind, earlier the Israeli historian and futurist Yuval Noah Harari said that the war against Ukraine, Putin is pushing humanity to the threat of extinction. In his opinion, through a Russian autocrat, humanity may enter an era of wars that will be much worse than anything in history, and our species may not survive this..