More than 4,300 documented cases. A medieval icon collection that has been evacuated three times. And now a blast wave through the windows of the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Russia’s latest strike on Kyiv hit not just buildings, but centuries of cultural memory. During the night of May 24, Russia launched a massive, combined attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Among the dozens of damaged sites were several major cultural institutions.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. At the National Chornobyl Museum, about 40% of the exhibition’s artifacts were reportedly lost beyond recovery. The collections displayed at NAMU were successfully saved, though the museum’s historic building sustained damage from the blast wave. The damaged structure is a national landmark of architecture, history, and monumental art, designed by architect Vladislav Gorodetsky near Kyiv’s government quarter. In recent years, the building had undergone large-scale restoration while continuing to serve as one of the capital’s key cultural strongholds during wartime. Museum officials said neither staff nor collections were harmed. The NAMU team is currently working with emergency and heritage specialists to document the consequences of the attack and assess the scale of the damage. “We are currently dealing with the immediate aftermath of the destruction,” said Yuliya Lytvynets. “The next stage will involve developing a new restoration plan based on a detailed analysis of the building’s structures and surviving elements that may still be preserved and reused. Only after that will it be possible to move on to the actual restoration of the building.”