As of February 25, 2024, 1,946 cultural infrastructure facilities were damaged or destroyed in Ukraine, excluding cultural heritage monuments, of which 317 were destroyed (16%), the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine reported on Thursday.

In total, 933 club establishments, 695 libraries, 151 art education institutions, 113 museums and galleries, 38 theaters, cinemas and philharmonic halls, 13 parks, zoos, reserves, three circuses were affected.

Twenty-eight damaged and destroyed cultural institutions of state ownership (9% of the total number of such institutions in Ukraine), the remaining 1918 – communal ownership (6% of their number in Ukraine).

The cultural infrastructure suffered the greatest losses in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions, as well as in Kyiv on the territory of 277 territorial communities (18.9% of the total number of communities in Ukraine).

Some of 83% of such facilities in Donetsk region, 54% in Kharkiv, 51% in Sumy, 47% in Chernihiv, 46% in Luhansk, 44% in Mykolaiv, 43% in Kherson, 36% in Zaporizhia were destroyed or damaged. In Kyiv region, 27% of cultural infrastructure facilities were damaged or destroyed, in Dnipropetrovsk – 19%, in Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky – 17% each, in Odesa – 9%, in Cherkasy – 6%, in Lviv – 4%, in Vinnytsia - 3.2%, in Zakarpattia, Poltava and Kirovohrad – 2%.

At the same time, the ministry notes that currently the entire territory of Luhansk and a significant part of the territories of Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Kherson regions "are still under temporary occupation, which makes it impossible to calculate the exact number of cultural infrastructure facilities affected during the fighting and occupation."