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\n\tA recent Russian strike on the city of Kyiv caused \u201cserious damage\u201d to the National Art Museum of Ukraine, when a blast wave affected the building without harming the collection or workers there.<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to a report from Reform.news<\/em>, \u201cThe blast wave damaged the museum\u2019s historic fa\u00e7ade: windows were blown out, window frames damaged, and plaster partially collapsed from walls and inside several halls. In addition, the glass covering of the skylight roof, which provides natural overhead lighting for the exhibition halls on the second floor, was damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe halls of the museum were empty during the attack, after valuable holdings were moved to secure storage during the first days of the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n \n\tTatsiana Berezhna, Ukraine\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture, said in a statement, \u201cThe National Art Museum of Ukraine is a place where the history of Ukrainian art is preserved. Russia is systematically attacking civilian infrastructure and cultural institutions. Every such strike is an attempt to intimidate and destroy our identity. We are documenting all damage and continue working on restoring our damaged cultural heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Ministry of Culture is currently preparing an appeal to UNESCO, the UN agency whose duties include the protection of cultural and natural heritage. As noted by Reform.news<\/em>, \u201cSince deliberate or collateral strikes on cultural heritage sites fall under the definition of war crimes, international observers have been invited to the site to officially document the damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/russian-strike-national-art-museum-ukraine-1234787314\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tyshenko_Igor_0000-1024×767-1.jpg?w=1024″] A recent Russian strike on the city of Kyiv caused \u201cserious damage\u201d to the National Art Museum of Ukraine, when a blast wave affected the building without harming the collection or workers there. According to a report from Reform.news, \u201cThe blast wave damaged the museum\u2019s historic fa\u00e7ade: windows were blown out, window […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1956507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}