List of cultural sites damaged during the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)

The list of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a list of cultural sites in Ukraine that have been verified by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as damaged and/or destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (which started on 24 February 2022). Despite that it was cited by many, the quality of this dataset remains not optimal. An examination of the April 2024 release showed that many entries suffer from incomplete information (e.g. imprecise description, missing geolocation, missing date of damage, missing multilingual title/description). Among the 351 damaged cultural properties they examined, only 211 met their criteria and were annotated and were included in their dataset.Wang, S., Berezko, O., Kultorp, E., Stefashko, M., Fedak, S., & Denyshchuk, O. (2024). Annotated Dataset of Damaged Cultural Sites and Infrastructures during the Russian invasion of Ukraine [Data set]. International Workshop on Social Communication and Information Activity in Digital Humanities (SCIA), Lviv, Ukraine. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14569340

Both Ukraine and Russia have signed the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (the 1954 Hague Convention), which was drafted to safeguard cultural heritage during periods of armed conflicts. UNESCO is primarily responsible for the dissemination and monitoring of compliance.

List The list is current as of 10 Dec 2025 and based on information verified by UNESCO.

This includes 514 sites in total:

152 religious sites 268 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest 38 museums 33 monuments 19 libraries 1 archive 3 archaeological sites

Chernihiv Oblast +Photo beforePhoto afterName/DescriptionIn UkrainianTypePopulated placeNotesBuilding of the Chernihiv Regional Youth CenterCultural centreChernihivFormer cinema and youth centre. Several attacks by russian troops.Church of St. TheodosiusChurchChernihiv, Yatsevo CemeteryOrthodox church; damaged in the fighting.Military Historical Museum, a branch of the Chernihiv Historical MuseumMuseumChernihivChernihiv Historical Museum branch.Regional children's libraryLibraryChernihivFormer Chernihiv Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities; severely damaged by Russian attacks.St Catherine's CathedralChurchChernihivAn 18th-century Orthodox church in the Ukrainian Baroque style; damaged by Russian shelling.Building of the Security Service of UkraineHistoric monumentChernihivFormer District Court (1904); destroyed by fire caused by Russian shelling: archive containing KGB files burnt.Sofia and Oleksandr Rusov Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific LibraryLibraryChernihivFormerly a bank building (1913); the largest regional library (approx. 868,000 volumes).Church of Our Lady of Kazan}ChurchChernihivBuilt 1820–1827 in memory of the victory in the Franco-Russian War of 1812.Yatsevo CemeteryCemeteryChernihivArchangangel Michael Chapel, consecrated in 2018 in memory of the soldiers who fell for Ukraine.Ascension ChurchChurchLukashivkaFirst wooden church in 1781; Soviet era: warehouse; 2022: ammunition and fuel stored there by Russian occupiers; corpses exhumed from the site.Dormition CathedralChurchChernihivThe monastery walls, gate, bell tower (17th century) and domes (11th–17th centuries) of the Yeletskyi Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God were damaged by Russian shelling.Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky City LibraryLibraryChernihivBuilding damage caused by a Russian air strike; heating system destroyed, part of the library collection lost.Chernihiv Regional Art MuseumMuseumChernihivA 1865 building damaged by Russian troops.House of CultureCultural centreIvanivkaThe building housing the village library was damaged by rocket fire.Chernihiv Literary Memorial Museum-Reserve of M. M. KotsiubynskyMuseumChernihivDamage to furniture and exhibits.Prayer Hall of the 2nd Christian Baptist ChurchPrayer houseChernihivDirect Russian missile fire struck the basement, where over 20 people hid.Building of the Firefighters SocietyHistoric monumentChernihiv1912 built; after World War II served as a printing house and artists' association.Chernihiv Regional Taras Shevchenko TheaterTheatreChernihivHit by a Russian Iskander missile: 181 casualties, severe structural damage.Desna Hotel BuildingHistoric monumentChernihivFormer Commercial Court.Children's Dental ClinicHistoric monumentChernihivDamaged by Russian shelling; former residential building of Gleb Uspenski.Post OfficeHistoric monumentChernihivFaçade damaged by Russian shelling.House of CultureCultural centreSemenivkaRepeatedly damaged by Russian drone attacks.Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (built in 1801–04)Religious siteNovyi BykivHouse of merchant MedvedevHistoric monumentNovhorod-SiverskyiThe building was in use as the local library, Russian drone attack damaged the building, the roof was destroyed and a large part of the library's collection was destroyed.Church of the Nativity of the Virgin MaryChurchHremiachA small orthodox church built in 2014, destroyed by Russian shelling.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast +Photo beforePhoto afterName/DescriptionIn UkrainianTypePopulated placeNotesChurch of Saint AlexiusChurchVelyka Dolynaformer school building; damaged by artillery fire from Russian occupiers.House of CultureCultural centreBerezoveDnipro Art MuseumMuseumDniproMuseum damaged by a Russian attack.Dnipro House of Organ and Chamber MusicChurchDniproFormer Bryansk St. Nicholas Church; damaged as a result of a Russian missile strike.Church of Our Lady of the SignChurchNikopolOrthodox church destroyed by Russian troops.Medical CollegeHistoric monumentNikopolFormer girls' gymnasium severely damaged by Russian shelling.Holy Dormition ChurchChurchMezhovaOrthodox church, burned down due to a Russian drone strike.

Donetsk Oblast