Unesco designates Ukraine’s Odesa a World Heritage in Danger site

 

PARIS — The United Nations’ cultural agency, Unesco, said on Wednesday that it had designated the historic centre of Odesa, a strategic port city on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, a World Heritage in Danger site.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine 11 months ago, denounced the designation, saying the only threat to Odesa came from the “nationalist regime in Ukraine”.

The status, awarded by a Unesco panel meeting in Paris, is designed to help protect Odesa’s cultural heritage, which has been under threat since Russia’s invasion, and enable access to financial and technical international aid.

Odesa has been bombed several times by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. …

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