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UNESCO: 53 Ukrainian historic, religious sites damaged since start of Russia’s war.

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The UN’s cultural agency used satellite images and witness reports to confirm damage inflicted upon 29 religious sites, 16 historic buildings, four museums, and four monuments. Kharkiv has sustained the most damage, with 18 sites affected, including the Drobytsky Yar Holocaust Memorial and the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. None of Ukraine's seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites have been damaged.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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