The invaders continue to destroy everything in their path, ignoring the rules of international law.
Since February 24, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has documented 300 episodes of Russian war crimes against Ukraine's cultural heritage. This is stated in a statement on the official website of the agency.
the 1954 conflict.
“Crimes of Russians against cultural heritage have been recorded in 12 regions of Ukraine and the city of Kyiv. The cultural heritage of Kharkiv region has suffered the most. So far, 88 episodes have been recorded there, of which 75 are in the city of Kharkiv and its environs. 62 cases have been recorded in the Donetsk region, 47 of them in Mariupol. In the Kyiv region, 49 objects were affected by the occupiers, most of them – 34 in the Bucha district. In the Chernihiv region, a total of 33 injuries were recorded, including 27 in Chernihiv, 21 in the Luhansk region, 17 in the Severodonetsk district, 20 in the Sumy region, and 16 in the Okhtyrka district. Also, 8 episodes were recorded in Zaporizhia oblast, 6 in Zhytomyr oblast, 5 each in Kyiv and Kherson oblasts, and 1 each in Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts, ”the ministry said.
Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko stressed that the Russians have committed a total of 300 war crimes against Ukraine's cultural heritage and, unfortunately, continue to commit new ones every day.
“We continue to record every case of Russian military atrocities against Ukraine's cultural heritage. No shameful episode should go unnoticed in international criminal proceedings. Russians need to know that punishment is inevitable, “the minister said.
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Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Kremlin does not believe in prosecution for war crimes.
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