“The sites of Kiev and Lviv have been inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger,” said a UNESCO source, following the decision adopted by the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, which followed the recommendation of experts from the United Nations Educational Organization. , Science and Culture.
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With their inclusion on the list of World Heritage in Danger, these sites in Kiev and Lviv follow in the footsteps of the historic center of the city of Odessa (south), where, at the end of July, Russian bombings destroyed several buildings, including the Transfiguration Cathedral .
“These sites are threatened by destruction. There have been attacks in the buffer zones of these sites, and we don't know what will happen in the future,” the director of World Heritage, Lazare Eloundou, explained to AFP in Paris at the beginning of September.
In early July, a “historic building” was bombed in Lviv, in the “first” attack on an area protected by the World Heritage Convention since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to UNESCO.
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This UN agency has so far recorded damage to approximately 270 Ukrainian cultural sites.
Saint Sophia Cathedral and the Kiev Caves Monastery entered the list of World Heritage Sites in 1990. The historic center of Lviv was inscribed in 1996.
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