Friday, 18 March 2022

Cultural Sites of Ukraine


According to the Wikipedia page (List of World Heritage Sites in Ukraine),
As of 2022, there are seven World Heritage Sites listed in Ukraine, six of which are cultural sites and one of which, the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, is a natural site.[3] The first site was listed was "Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra", in 1990. The most recent sites listed were the Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine and the Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora, in 2013. Three sites are transnational: the Wooden Tserkvas are shared with Poland, the Struve Geodetic Arc is shared with nine countries, and the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests are shared with 17 countries. In addition, Ukraine has 17 sites on its tentative list.[3]
[The links are to "Ukraine"UNESCO World Heritage Centre]. Chersonese is in Crimea, currently under Russian occupation. The Russians have recently been shelling the historic centre of Lviv. Of the tentative list, the historical centre of Chernihiv is in the area attacked and currently occupied by the Russians, the region around the National Steppe Biosphere Reserve "Askaniya Nowa" is currently an area of intense military activity, the Bagçesaray Palace of the Crimean Khans and the fortifications at Sudak and two other sites on the tentative list are currently in Russian occupied Crimea, the fate of the Kamyana Mohyla just north of the heavy fighting at Melitopol' Zaporizhia Oblast is unknown. Nearby is the Mykolayiv Astronomical Observatory. There are currently indications that the Russians are intending to occupy the Historic Center of the Port City of Odessa. The fantastic Derzhprom building (which is a prime and important/influential piece of Soviet architecture) is in the centre of Kharkiv, large areas of which are now almost totally smashed by needless Russian shelling of civilians. 

What is needed is for the Ukrainians to create as complete a database of information of the names of the  Russian commanders of specific groups so that after the War they can be hunted down and made personally accountable for any war crimes, including deliberate destruction by the men under their command of cultural property that non-combatants will be documenting.
 

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