Nearly 1,500 cultural infrastructure facilities damaged in Ukraine

This is reported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.

As a result of the Russian aggression, 1,464 objects of cultural infrastructure have been damaged as of 25 April 2023, of which 523 have been destroyed.

It is noted that 91 units were damaged this month. Of these, 47 (52%) were damaged in the Kherson region.

The largest destruction of cultural infrastructure occurred on the territory of 210 territorial communities: (14.3%) in Vinnitsa (3% TG), Dnipropetrovsk (14%), Donetsk (85%), Zhytomyr (12%), Zakarpattia (2%), Zaporizhia (31%), Kyiv (27%), Luhansk (42%), Lviv (2%), Mykolaiv (42%), Odesa (3%), Sumy (45%), Kharkiv (36%), Kherson (35%), Khmelnytskyi (2%), Cherkasy (3%), Chernihiv (14%) oblasts and Kyiv City. Kiyv.

Clubs are the largest group of cultural infrastructure facilities that suffered damage or destruction - 48% of the total number of cultural infrastructure facilities that incurred losses," the Ministry adds.

In total, the following were affected:

• clubhouses - 701;
• libraries - 555;
• museums and galleries - 77;
• theatres and philharmonic societies - 23;
• arts education establishments: 108.