Destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage is one of the goals of a full -scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine. This became apparent after numerous robberies of museums in the occupied territories, as well as rockets and drones in museum buildings. Despite that, Many valuable museum collections have not yet been evacuated in high -risk areas and in frontline areas.
Sumy region is not the most suffering from Russian attacks - to the towns and villages of the border region fly airplaces, drones and rockets. 23 April struck fell on the People's Museum of the village of Ulanov of the Esman community. The assembly is completely burned, And the community is left without its history - without archeological and paleontological collections, Photo archive and old printed books. The museum was destroyed by a managed airline. Meanwhile, over 3 Millions of paintings and museum subjects require urgent evacuation from risk zones.
The Ministry of Culture assures, that evacuation of cultural values continues. However the number of evacuated exhibits, in the department, is small - more than half a million items have been evacuated from the beginning of the invasion.
The local authorities are also reassuring. In response to the request of UP Culture in the Sumy Regional Administration reported, that evacuation of museum collections in the region is carried out, And the values of the so -called first and second stage have already been exported. However, shortly after the cum 13 April journalist UP. Culture visited the damaged art museum of the city and found out, that his collection is still stored in the basement.
Two days ago the Russians attacked Konotop with ballistic missiles and drones. This city is located behind 70 kilometers from the Russian border. In March 2022 The year it was already occupied - then the Russians did not have time to rob the collection of the local museum of local lore, How did it happen, наприклад, in Kherson. After release the museum suffered damage as a result of rocket strokes. And yet, Despite the threat, his collections have not yet evacuated.
