NGA Tearline: Armed Conflict Impacts to Cultural Heritage Sites in Ukraine

Developed in Partnership with the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab

This Tearline report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the armed conflict in Ukraine between February and June 2022. All impact confirmations were made by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab, a partnership between the Virginia Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative

CHML has monitored and recorded impacts to cultural heritage sites across Ukraine throughout the ongoing conflict utilizing high-resolution commercial satellite imagery access supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. In total, CHML analysts confirmed conflict-related impacts to 108 cultural sites throughout Ukraine between February and June 2022.

Read more of this intelligence report at Tearline.mil.


What is NGA Tearline?

NGA is partnering with expert private groups to grow public-facing, authoritative open source intelligence on various strategic and humanitarian intelligence topics that tend to be under-reported within long-form format.

This authoritative open source content will be cited for internal purposes and it will grow public trust by increasing transparency around shared public-private interest in various strategic and humanitarian intelligence topics that are fit for public consumption.

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