PARIS (Reuters) – The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said on Wednesday it had designated the historic center of Odessa, a strategic port city on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, as an endangered World Heritage Site.
The status awarded at a UNESCO panel meeting in Paris will protect Odessa’s cultural heritage, which has been under threat since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and allow access to international financial and technical assistance. It is hoped that it will be useful for
Odessa has been bombed several times by Russia since it invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
In July 2022, part of the large glass roof and windows of the Odessa Art Museum, which opened in 1899, were destroyed.
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(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta/Richard Lough)
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