The United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO, says at least 53 culturally important sites have been damaged since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The damaged sites include 29 churches, 16 historical buildings, four museums and four monuments.
The list is by no means exhaustive, as UNESCO relies on belated satellite images and witness reports to verify the damage. According to the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, the statistics are much more devastating.
At least 135 war crimes against Ukrainian national heritage have been documented since Feb. 24, including 59 crimes against religious sites and memorial grounds.
If that is not a crossed red line, what is? Russia is a terrorist state with no respect for history, culture and human life. It has taken on a villainous mission to destroy not only Ukraine’s infrastructure and economy, but its invaluable historical heritage.
These barbaric acts should be stopped as soon as possible and punished to the fullest extent of the law in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Conventions. You can contribute by spreading the truth about Russia’s despicable war crimes. #DATTALION#UNESCO
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1. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian military forces fired from the air at an oil depot, destroying it. Also hit the plant, which led to a large-scale fire.
2. According to special services, Russian occupants are preparing for a large-scale provocation in Mariupol, to blame Ukraine for the murder of civilians.
3. Three tortured civilians were already found in the Konotopsk district of the Sumy region.
4. Russian troops have hit a nitric acid tank in Luhansk Region. It is dangerous when inhaled, swallowed, and in contact with skin and mucous membranes.
5. The Russian servicemen who killed and tortured people in Bucha are being returned to the front line of Ukraine.
1. Seven people were killed and 20 wounded as a result of the Russian shelling of Ochakov in Mykolayiv region. The city of Mykolayiv was shelled with cassette shells. 10 people were killed, 46 were wounded.
2. In Luhansk Region two volunteers who had been distributing humanitarian aid to local residents were killed during a mortar attack in Novodruzhsk. The occupants also shelled a church - two priests were wounded.
3. On the evening of April 3, the occupants shelled Ternopil for the first time since the beginning of the Russian invasion. The Armed Forces of Ukraine neutralized the threat, but the fragments of the airbomb affected critical infrastructure.
1. The naked bodies of five women were found on the side of the road 20 km outside of Kyiv. After raping and torturing the women, Russian war criminals killed them, doused with gasoline and attempted to burn the bodies.
2. Nearly 300 murdered civilians were discovered in a mass grave in Bucha near Kyiv. Their bodies cannot be extracted and passed to the relatives, as the city of Bucha is heavily mined.
3. Ukrainian top-ranked photographer Max Levin, who had been documenting the war in Ukraine for many leading international media outlets, was found dead. He was killed by a Russian bullet.
1. In Kharkiv the Russians gun fired at people at a post office distributing humanitarian aid. At least six civilians were killed. Another 15 were wounded and hospitalized.
2. The Russian occupants carried out rocket and phosphorus bombardment of the Luhansk region — four people were killed. Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Kreminna, Novodruzhsk and Voivodivka were hit.
3. The Russian occupants fired Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea at the center of Kharkiv. In total, the occupants made 44 artillery, tank, and mortar strikes at Kharkiv in the past 24 hours. Kharkiv was also shelled 140 times with Grad and Uragan multiple rocket launchers.
1. Twenty-four people have been found dead under the rubble of the building of the Kharkiv Regional Administration. This building was shelled to ashes by the Russians on March 1.
2. Kateryna Dyachenko, a Ukrainian 11-year old gymnast, tragically died after her home in Mariupol was bombed. The tragedy was reported by Kateryna's coach Anastasia Meshchanenkova on her Instagram.
3. The Russian invaders killed a woman in Trostyanets, Sumy region, who was just riding her bicycle. 4. The Russian shell hit a multi-story building in Rubizhne, Luhansk region. Three people were killed, including two children.
Before the war, Oleksiy Timofeev, a founder of Timofeev Trekking, had spent over 20 years leading hikes in the Carpathian Mountains. When Russia attacked Ukraine, Oleksiy gathered a team of devoted volunteers in just three days.
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Since then, rain or shine, with temperatures dropping sometimes to 10 below zero, his Team Cook has prepared over 7000 servings of food and had only one day off, and that is only because of the citywide curfew.
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Oleksiy named the trailer Tanechka in honor of his wife who he’s been separated from since the beginning of the war. Just like countless Ukrainians, Oleksiy has family and friends who are scattered across the country, so every day is fraught with anxiety.
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