Over 150 Ukraine Cultural Landmarks Destroyed by Russia’s War – UN

[Rogue Valley]

Over 150 Ukraine Cultural Landmarks Destroyed by Russia’s War – UN - The Moscow Times

UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday.

www.themoscowtimes.com

6.23.22
UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday. They include museums and monuments, churches and other religious buildings, and libraries and other exceptional buildings, UNESCO said in an update of its efforts to assist Ukraine authorities in documenting the damage. "These repeated attacks on Ukrainian cultural sites must stop. Cultural heritage, in all its forms, should not be targeted under any circumstances," UNESCO'S director-general Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. Her agency has been helping Ukraine authorities to mark landmarks with the distinctive "blue shield," meaning they are protected under the 1954 Hague convention on culture in armed conflicts, of which both Russia and Ukraine are signatories.

Yet dozens of sites have been damaged since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, with three-quarters in the eastern regions of Kharkiv and Donetsk as well as near the capital Kyiv, UNESCO said in its update. But for now, the seven World Heritage Sites in Ukraine have not been affected, such as the St. Sophia Cathedral and monastic buildings of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the capital. Ukraine has demanded that Russia be expelled from UNESCO, and the agency has indefinitely postponed a meeting to discuss the status of World Heritage Sites that Russia was to host this month in the city of Kazan. UNESCO has warned that Russian troops or officials found guilty of knowingly destroying Ukraine heritage sites could be prosecuted under international law.

The signature of Russia on a piece of paper is worthless.

 

[Roadvirus]

Over 150 Ukraine Cultural Landmarks Destroyed by Russia’s War – UN - The Moscow Times

UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday.

www.themoscowtimes.com

The signature of Russia on a piece of paper is worthless.

Part of Russia's "Cultural Purge" of their "special military operation".

 

[Juin]

The signature of Russia on a piece of paper is worthless.

How many Lenin statues were torn down by Ukraine ? And that was during peace times.

 

[Rogue Valley]

How many Lenin statues were torn down by Ukraine ? And that was during peace times.

Ukraine rid itself of Lenin statues just as the US is now ridding itself of Lee statues.

Something you wouldn't understand.

 

[slick]

How many Lenin statues were torn down by Ukraine ? And that was during peace times.

Jewish World: Ukraine's new heroes: Anti-Semites and murderers of Jews.
By Eduard Dolinsky, executive director of Ukrainian Jewish Committee

"Avenues and streets have been named after Bandera and his partners, who collaborated with the Nazis and massacred Jews during the Holocaust. Ironically, the avenue leading to Moscow and to Babi Yar (the site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators) is named after Bandera.

Ukraine can’t announce that we accept the European values, and at the same time declare people who collaborated with the Nazis as heroes, while completely denying those exact same values. Ukraine will have to make a choice: Either to become an enlightened European state or to sink into the mud of historical contradictions and nationalism.”

 

[Roadvirus]

How many Lenin statues were torn down by Ukraine ? And that was during peace times.

You are seriously comparing historical buildings like a church to Lenin statues?

 

[slick]

Over 150 Ukraine Cultural Landmarks Destroyed by Russia’s War – UN - The Moscow Times

UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday.

www.themoscowtimes.com

The signature of Russia on a piece of paper is worthless.

Ukraine Cultural Landmarks???? Ukrainian nationality is as dubious as Byelorussian nationality: neither of them had a dictionary of their language until 1918.

A partition is the best solution for Ukraine, which never was a country but an amalgam of provinces left over from failed empires–Russian, Austrian, Lithuanian, Ottoman–cobbled together into a Soviet “republic” and cast adrift after the collapse of Communism. Lviv (Lemberg) was a German-speaking city, part of Silesia; before World War II a quarter of its people were Jews. Jews were two-fifths of the population of Odessa.

A fifth of the population, mainly in the East, are ethnic Russians; a tenth, mainly in the West, are Uniate Catholics, who have a unique place in Catholic policy since the papacy of John Paul II.

There were 52 million Ukrainian citizens when Communism fell in 1989. Its GDP at about $157 billion is a fifth of Turkey’s and half of Switzerland’s. Ukrainians want to join the European Union rather than Russia so they can emigrate. It is of no strategic, economic, or demographic importance to the West.

 

[Rogue Valley]

You are seriously comparing historical buildings like a church to Lenin statues?

Well, to a Russia lover, Lenin and Stalin statues are religious icons.

 

[slick]

Ukraine rid itself of Lenin statues just as the US is now ridding itself of Lee statues.

Something you wouldn't understand.

That is the most ridiculous analogy I've have ever seen presented, ever.

Dwight Eisenhower from Kansas 5 star General & considered a top 5
President of all time when decorating the Oval Office
to suit himself had placed in the most prominent position the portrait of Robert E. Lee. My guess
is that Ike did not view Lee as a traitor but considered Lee a great leader of men as he was.

The government against which he fought has honored Robert E. Lee on at least five
postage stamps. Stonewall Jackson has also been memorialized on US stamps.
Some woke liberals may consider Confederate Generals like Lee as traitors
but it is obvious the U.S. government does not.

Why do the wokest of the woke’ scribble endlessly railing against some of the most
important Military Leaders in US history, I'm sure your realize Jackson & Lee
are almost unanimously considered among the top 5 generals in US history
& are legends to millions here in the states.

"Hats off to Masta Robert a real FFV
A dauntless & chivalrous leader was he
He massacred Hooker he trifled with Pope
He stripped poor old Burnside of whiskers & hope
But Meade was the horseshoe he couldn’t quite bend
And then came Ulysses S Grant & the end"