Protection of Cultural Heritage in an Armed Conflict. What Poland can Learn from Ukraine?
Journal: Challenges to national defence in a contemporary geopolitical situation
Year: 2022

The protection of cultural heritage is an important element of a country’s cultural policy. The article describes the nature of threats posed by armed conflicts to cultural heritage and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural property by Russian aggression in 2022. The article aims at discussion of the consequences of Russia’s deliberate destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage and offers an interdisciplinary insight into protection of cultural heritage during the contemporary armed conflict. Th