The UNESCO has granted “temporary enhanced protection” to two significant cultural sites in Ukraine: the Literary Museum in Odessa and the Babyn Yar Memorial in Kiev. The move comes as the third anniversary of the Russian war in Ukraine approaches, which caused extensive damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage.

Babyn Yar commemorates the victims of the Nazi massacre of 1941, in which more than 33,000 Jews, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war died. In 2022, the monument was threatened when a Russian missile hit nearby, killing five people. The Holocaust memorial itself was unharmed, but the building intended for the new museum was damaged.

• UNESCO udeľuje zvýšenú ochranu dvom ukrajinským kultúrnym pamiatkam. In: Netky. 31.12.2024. https://www.netky.sk/clanok/unesco-udeluje-zvysenu-ochranu-dvom-ukrajinskym-kulturnym-pamiatkam