In addition, three of them are partially located in the territory of other states. For instance, the objects of the nomination “Points of the Struve Geodetic Arc” are also partially located in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Moldova; “Primeval Beech Forests” are also found in Austria, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia; the objects of the nomination “Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region” are also located in the territory of Poland. Another 16 monuments are candidates for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
One of the eight UNESCO World Heritage sites and seven of the sixteen candidates to be recognized as World Heritage are currently located in the temporarily Russian-occupied territories (Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions); the sites of five nominations from the Tenta-tive List of Candidates (Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions) are now under constant missile attacks.
Apart from the military aggression, Russia is also waging war on the humanitarian front.Destruction and decontextualization of cultural heritage (measures to study and popularize monuments by repre-sentatives of the aggressor state in the occupied territories in isolation from the history, culture and traditions of the local population, which lead to a change or destruction of the historical context of the monument, simplifications and errors in interpretation and evaluation of the facts of the past, which is a sign of the colonial approach), alienation from the Ukrainian language and the language of the Cri-mean Tatars, the indigenous people of Crimea, manipulation of historical facts and denial of the au-thenticity of the Ukrainian language, culture and the very existence of a sovereign and self-sufficient Ukrainian nation, as well as the historical ethnogenesis and autochthonous nature of the Crimean Ta-tars in the territory of Crimea, the use of political technologies for manipulative purposes, the artificial demarcation of regions of Ukraine to incite domestic inter-religious enmity, the use of academic and public influence in European countries to strengthen the Russian cultural and historical narrative – this is a far from exhaustive list of Russia’s tools on the humanitarian front against Ukraine. Aggression against cultural heritage is a key policy tool of the aggressor state waging an armed struggle.
