Barrage of Russian missiles damages museums, library and theatre in Kyiv

Ukrainian cultural institutions in Kyiv were assessed after a large missile and drone attack. The culture ministry listed multiple hit sites, including the National Chornobyl Museum. Reports from affected institutions showed broken glass, blown-out doors, and damaged facades. President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 100 people were injured and four killed across Ukraine, with 30 residential buildings damaged or destroyed in Kyiv. Ukraine’s military reported Russia used 600 drones and 90 missiles, including the hypersonic Oreshnik. Russia said the barrage retaliated for a Ukrainian strike on a college in Starobilsk, while Ukraine said it hit a drone unit. The National Chornobyl Museum reported around 40% of exhibits in its exhibition hall were destroyed, and Ukrainian House was damaged and closed briefly.

"Ukrainian culture workers continue to assess damage from Russia's massive missile and drone strike over the weekend, one of the largest since the February 2022 full-scale invasion. In a on 24 May, Ukraine's culture ministry listed the cultural institutions that were hit in Kyiv, the capital. Among them were the , the , the , and the National Chornobyl Museum. Social media posts by the institutions showed shards of glass, blown out doors, damaged facades, and in the case of the National Chornobyl Museum, which suffered the worst damage, ."

"President Volodymyr Zelensky reported in a on Sunday that approximately 100 people had been injured and four killed across Ukraine, with 30 residential buildings damaged or destroyed in Kyiv along in the overnight barrage. He in a tour of sites hit by the strike. Ukraine's military reported that Russia had used 600 drones and 90 missiles in the attack, including the hypersonic, nuclear-capable Oreshnik. Russia said the barrage was retaliation for a Ukrainian strike against a college in Starobilsk, in the Luhansk region illegally occupied by Russia; Ukraine says it hit a drone unit."

"The National Chornobyl Museum says that around 40% of the exhibits from its exhibition hall have been destroyed Courtesy the National Chornobyl Museum Semenik is the curator of an exhibition titled Chernobyl. Shelter that opened in April at Ukrainian House in central Kyiv to mark the 40th anniversary of the disaster and includes ten portraits from the collection of the National Chornobyl Museum of disaster liquidators by the artist Oleg Veklenko, himself a liquidator."

"Ukrainian House was also damaged in the weekend attack and closed for two days, although fortunately with no casualties or damage to the exhibition, Semenik tells The Art Newspaper. She describes the significance of the National Chornobyl Museum, which had been modernised and reopened to the public with a new permanent exhibition in time for the anniversary, both in chronicling the nucle"

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