Since February 24, the Russian army has inflicted varying degrees of destruction on at least 183 religious buildings in Ukraine.. Coverage area - 14 areas. We are talking about churches, mosques, synagogues, educational and administrative buildings of religious communities, according to the website of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience.
The corresponding interactive map was created based on the results of monitoring carried out by this department in cooperation with the Workshop of Academic Religious Studies (MAR).
5 out of 183 structures damaged as a result of the Russian attack are Muslim, 5 are Jewish, the remaining 173 are Christian. 22 belong to Protestant communities, 19 now belong to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), three belong to the Roman Catholic Church (RKC) and two belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC).
The largest number of destroyed religious buildings in Donetsk (45) and Lugansk (40) regions. After them - Kyiv (34) and Kharkov (25) regions.
You can register eyewitness accounts of the destruction on the resource of the Ministry of Culture for documenting war crimes against humanity and cultural heritage sites committed by the Russian army: https://culturecrimes. mkip. gov. ua. You can view already recorded war crimes on this resource here..
Recall, according to one of the recent intercepts by the SBU, the Russian invaders after the war against Ukraine want to be treated and go to church.