Celebrations were also held in Rome yesterday to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence: this evening, the Colosseum will be illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag—yellow and blue—to mark the occasion. Ukraine’s inde...
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On the morning of August 20, a Russian attack struck the Kherson Regional Art Museum in Ukraine , causing a fire in the right wing of the building and in the adjacent service facilities. Fragments of the drone used by the Russians in the attack were...
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UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany made his first official visit to Ukraine since taking office, with a two-day mission to Kyiv focused on strengthening cooperation with Ukrainian authorities and protecting the country’s cultural heritage....
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In Ukraine, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol has formally opened an investigation into alleged illegal activities carried out in the field of archaeology within the territory of the peninsu...
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A Russian drone strike destroyed an important monument in Ukraine: the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in Beryslav, in the Kherson Oblast. The building, dating back to 1725, was one of the oldest surviving examples in Ukraine of 18th-century...
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The ancient city of Chersonesos Taurica and its chora ( i.e., the agricultural areas surrounding the settlement), located on the Crimean Peninsula inRussian-occupied Ukraine , have been inscribed on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. Th...
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During Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on July 2, which left 31 dead and more than 100 wounded (and which was followed by another attack launched yesterday, July 6, that left 22 dead and 56 injured), Ukraine’s cultural sec...
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The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has decided to suspend all archaeological expeditions to Russian-occupied Crimea, postponing fieldwork until further notice. The decision comes at a time of high tension on the peninsula, which was unilaterally ...
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