Aerial Bombs Dropped by Russia on Kamianska Sich
Russian fascists dropped aerial bombs on the monument of national importance Kamiansk Sich in the Kherson region. The cultural object contains the Tomb of Kostya Gordienko, the chieftain of Kosh, and the cemetery of the Zaporozhye Cossacks of the first half of the 18th century.
This was reported on Thursday, February 1, in the Telegram of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (MKIP) with reference to a video from propaganda channels.
The footage cited by the ministry shows how the cultural object was hit by three powerful explosions during the shelling.
“For the first time, they hit directly on the location of the former Kamianska Sich, where there are still unexplored production facilities of the iron smelting and pottery complex of the first half of the 18th century.
The second time they hit the territory of the modern tourist facility, where the lapidary is located, which presents stone monuments in the immediate vicinity of the cross and the grave of the kosh chieftain Kostya Gordienko and the entrance gate of Sichi,” the message reads.
It is indicated that the aggressor country already has more than 120 damaged or destroyed monuments of national importance.
“Russia has dealt another blow to our heritage — it took aim at Kamiansk Sich. This once again proves that the Russian Federation is purposefully destroying our material culture in order to erase Ukrainians as a nation,” said Acting Acting President Minister of Culture Rostislav Karandeev.
It will be recalled that during one of the rocket attacks on Kharkiv on January 23, 62 objects of historical buildings in the historical area of Kharkiv were damaged. 20 of these buildings are architectural monuments and objects recommended for this status. About 50 facilities were damaged for the first time since the start of a full-scale invasion.
“These statistics make this shelling the most extensive in terms of damage that our team has documented during a full-scale invasion,” – emphasized the head of the HeMoLab expeditionary direction, Ivan Shchurko.
HeMoLab reported that two areas of the city with dense historical buildings were hit:
Zalopany district, where houses of the XVIII-XX centuries are located;
the central part of the city with buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Buildings at 70, 65, and 68 Pushkinska Street, as well as 17, 19, 21 Rizdvyania Street, and 3 Kotsarska Street, which are located closest to the place where the missiles hit, were the most affected by the shelling.
The building of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine is located at 70 Pushkinska Street. It was built in 1896 according to the project of Serhiy Zagoskin for the merchant Herman Gelferikh, the brother of the famous industrialist Maximilian Gelferikh. There, due to the explosion, the roof, attic floor structures, the floor of the second and third floors, walls and partitions of the central part of the second and third floors, as well as fragments of the walls of the second floor collapsed. As a result of the collapse, the interior decoration was destroyed.
It is reported that among the damaged buildings there are objects important for the social and cultural life of the city: the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, the Annunciation Cathedral, the Regional Organizational and Methodological Center of Culture and Art, the Kharkiv Medical Society, etc.