The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine is continuing to document the damage to cultural heritage sites caused by the full-scale Russian aggression.
As of May 25, 2025, according to information from regional and Kyiv military administrations, a total of 1482 cultural heritage sites have been damaged in Ukraine. Among them, 145 are of national significance, 1232 are local, and 105 are newly identified.
Cultural landmarks have suffered damage across 18 regions and Kyiv, including: Kharkiv region — 335, Kherson — 282, Donetsk — 172, Odesa — 159, Kyiv region and Kyiv city — 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 sustained damage, with 436 destroyed (18.6%).
The cultural infrastructure has suffered the most significant losses in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, and Sumy regions.
The largest group of damaged cultural infrastructure objects consists of club venues (48.6% of the total number of affected cultural institutions). Overall, the following have been impacted:
- clubs — 1118;
- libraries — 808;
- art education institutions — 176;
- museums and galleries — 129;
- theaters, cinemas, and philharmonics — 48;
- nature reserves — 8;
- parks and zoos — 10;
- circuses — 4;
- film studio — 1.
Destruction has occurred in 310 territorial communities (21% of all TC in Ukraine) in Vinnytsia (3.2%), Dnipropetrovsk (22%), Donetsk (91%), Zhytomyr (18%), Zakarpattia (1.6%), Zaporizhia (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 and in Kyiv city.
Almost all of the Luhansk territory and significant parts of the Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions remain under temporary occupation, complicating the accurate assessment of the number of damaged cultural heritage sites affected during hostilities and occupation.