Assessment of Cultural Heritage Losses in Ukraine
The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine is actively monitoring the damages inflicted on cultural heritage sites and infrastructure due to the ongoing war.
According to data provided by regional and Kyiv military administrations, as of May 25, 2025, the total number of damaged cultural heritage sites in Ukraine stands at 1482. This includes 145 of national significance, 1232 local, and 105 newly identified sites.
Cultural heritage sites have suffered damages in 18 regions and Kyiv, including: 335 in Kharkiv, 282 in Kherson, 172 in Donetsk, 159 in Odesa, 106 in Kyiv region and Kyiv city, 67 in Zaporizhzhia, 65 in Chernihiv, 61 in Lviv, 61 in Dnipropetrovsk, 56 in Sumy, 53 in Mykolaiv, 32 in Luhansk, 11 in Khmelnytskyi, 10 in Poltava, 4 in Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr, 3 in Kirovohrad, and 1 in Cherkasy.
Additionally, 2302 cultural infrastructure objects have been damaged, with 436 completely destroyed (18.6%).
The cultural infrastructure has suffered the greatest losses in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy regions.
The largest group of affected cultural infrastructure objects consists of club institutions, accounting for 48.6% of the total number of damaged cultural facilities.
In total, the following have been affected:
- club institutions - 1118;
- libraries - 808;
- art education institutions - 176;
- museums and galleries - 129;
- theaters, cinemas, and philharmonics - 48;
- reserves - 8;
- parks, zoos - 10;
- circuses - 4;
- film studio - 1.
Destruction has impacted cultural institutions within 310 territorial communities (21% of all TCs in Ukraine) in Vinnytsia (3.2%), Dnipropetrovsk (22%), Donetsk (91%), Zhytomyr (18%), Transcarpathian (1.6%), Zaporizhzhia (40.3%), Kirovohrad (4%), Kyiv (28.6%), Luhansk (46.2%), Lviv (5.5%), Mykolaiv (44.2%), Odesa (10%), Poltava (4%), Sumy (68.6%), Kharkiv (59%), Kherson (45%), Khmelnytskyi (18%), Cherkasy (6.1%), and Chernihiv (51%) regions, as well as in Kyiv city.
Most of Luhansk territory and significant parts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions remain under temporary occupation, which complicates the accurate assessment of the cultural heritage sites damaged during the conflict.
