The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine continues to document the damage to cultural heritage sites caused by the full-scale Russian aggression.
As of May 25, 2025, based on information from regional and Kyiv military administrations, a total of 1482 cultural heritage sites have been recorded as damaged. Of these, 145 are of national significance, 1232 are local, and 105 are newly identified.
Damage has occurred in 18 regions and Kyiv, particularly in: Kharkiv — 335, Kherson — 282, Donetsk — 172, Odesa — 159, Kyiv and Kyiv region — 106, Zaporizhia — 67, Chernihiv — 65, Lviv — 61, Dnipropetrovsk — 61, Sumy — 56, Mykolaiv — 53, Luhansk — 32, Khmelnytskyi — 11, Poltava — 10, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr — 4 each, Kirovohrad — 3, Cherkasy — 1.
Additionally, 2302 cultural infrastructure objects have suffered losses, of which 436 have been destroyed (18.6%).
The cultural infrastructure has sustained the most significant losses in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, and Sumy regions.
The largest group of damaged cultural infrastructure objects consists of clubs (48.6% of the total damaged cultural facilities).
In total, the following have been affected:
- clubs — 1118;
- libraries — 808;
- art education institutions — 176;
- museums and galleries — 129;
- theaters, cinemas, and philharmonics — 48;
- nature reserves — 8;
- parks, zoos — 10;
- circuses — 4;
- film studios — 1.
Destruction has impacted clubs, libraries, museums, and theaters across 310 territorial communities (21% of all TCGs in Ukraine).
Much of Luhansk and significant parts of Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions remain under temporary occupation, complicating the accurate assessment of the number of damaged cultural heritage sites due to military actions and occupation.
