The building of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, which is located in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was badly damaged as a result of a Russian attack on the night of 5-6 November on Odesa. The missile struck the road right in front of the museum.
The HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab has recorded damage to 55 cultural heritage buildings in Odesa following the Russian missile attacks in July. Since 28 July, a team from different cities in Ukraine, including Lviv, Drohobych, Kharkiv, Kherson and Kyiv, has been working on documenting the damage caused by Russian missiles in Odesa.
Scott Peterson/Getty ImagesIn three days of bombing, Russia has again damaged cultural sites in Ukraine, this time in the historic city of Odesa—which UNESCO recently added to its World Heritage List, invoking a rarely used emergency inscription to add the city and calling it “the duty of all humanity to protect it.”Russian bombs hit the Odesa Literary Museum, the Odesa Archaeological Museum, and the Museum of Western and Oriental Art, according to news reports. The Mykolaiv Regional Center for
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Russian invasion forces carried out another massive missile attack on the southern regions of Ukraine in the early hours of July 20, hitting Odesa and Mykolaiv once again. The center of Odesa, designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, is now under threat.