From February 24 to July 23, 2022, at least 183 religious buildings in at least 14 regions of Ukraine were completely destroyed or suffered damage of varying degrees as a result of an armed invasion by the Russian Federation: churches, mosques, synagogues, educational and administrative buildings of religious communities.
This was reported by the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (SSEFC).
The SSEFC has published an interactive map showing the affected temples and religious buildings.
Five out of 183 buildings damaged by Russian invaders are Muslim, five are Jewish, and the remaining 173 are Christian.
Twenty-two belong to Protestant communities, 19 – to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), three to the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), and two to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC).
73% (127 sites) of the 173 damaged Christian buildings that were completely or partially destroyed as a result of the Russian attack belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Despite the fact that the UOC MP officially informed the SSEFC about the change in the Statute, as of July 23, neither its full text nor clarification regarding it have been published on the UCO-MP’s official website.
The largest number of destroyed religious buildings was recorded in Donetsk (45), Luhansk (40), Kyiv (34), and Kharkiv (25) regions.
