The devastation of Odesa’s Fine Arts Museum underscores the ongoing cultural losses in Ukraine. Novaya Gazeta Europe examines the broader impact of conflict on the country’s heritage.
The Fine Arts Museum in the proudly multiethnic Ukrainian port city of Odesa was damaged in the early hours of Monday when a Russian missile landed right outside the museum’s main building, the elegant 19th century Potocky Palace, leaving a large crater in the road.
While the building sustained superficial damage such as smashed windows and broken plaster, Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper was able to assure the public that all the museum’s artefacts had long been removed and put into storage.
The profound damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage caused by the Russian invasion is inevitably overshadowed by the horrendous death toll, civilian casualties and attacks on vital infrastructure, but that doesn’t lessen the long-term impact of the destruction of buildings such as the Sviatohirsk Lavra of the Holy Dormition...Keep reading on Novaya Gazeta Europe.
The Fine Arts Museum in the proudly multiethnic Ukrainian port city of Odesa was damaged in the early hours of Monday when a Russian missile landed right outside the museum’s main building, the elegant 19th century Potocky Palace, leaving a large crater in the road.
While the building sustained superficial damage such as smashed windows and broken plaster, Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper was able to assure the public that all the museum’s artefacts had long been removed and put into storage.
The profound damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage caused by the Russian invasion is inevitably overshadowed by the horrendous death toll, civilian casualties and attacks on vital infrastructure, but that doesn’t lessen the long-term impact of the destruction of buildings such as the Sviatohirsk Lavra of the Holy Dormition...Keep reading on Novaya Gazeta Europe.