section_path: Impacts/Humanitarian impact/Cultural heritage
section_name: Cultural heritage
paragraph_text: Cultural heritage
  
  Deliberate destruction and looting of cultural heritage sites is a war crime; during armed conflict, it is an act of aggression. As of April 2025, UNESCO has verified damage to 485 Ukrainian cultural sites, including 149 religious sites, 34 museums, 33 monuments, and 18 libraries. In 2022, the European Parliament labelled Russia's destruction of Ukrainian cultural property a war crime. Ukraine's Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko called it cultural genocide.