Chapter 3 Monuments Destroyed, Spared, and Stolen
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

Monuments destroyed: War memorials demolished, damaged, or removed by Russian forcesAs it advanced into Ukraine, the invading Russian military destroyed a number of war memorials, both deliberately and unintentionally.Some of the accidental damage was widely reported in the Ukrainian and international media.On March 1, 2022, the building of a planned museum at the Babyn Iar memorial site in Kyiv was damaged during Russian shelling of a nearby television tower.Babyn Iar, the site of one of the de