The head of the State Archive Service of Ukraine, Anatoliy Khromov, says that as of today, losses of documents of the National Archive Fund as a result of a full-scale war amount to up to 1.5%.
“Ukraine in 2022 has done much more to preserve its own archives compared to 1941 and to 2014. Obviously, there are huge threats, but now we estimate the loss of documents of the National Archive Fund to be up to 1.5% of the total array of those documents stored until February 24, 2022,” Khromov said at a briefing on Thursday.
In particular, according to him, because of the fire in the archival unit in the Chernihiv office of the Security Service of Ukraine, up to 13 thousand documents were actually lost, first of all those of the repressive bodies of the communist totalitarian regime.
Also, according to him, since the beginning of the full-scale war, damage to the archive premises without loss of documents has been recorded in Kharkiv, Mykolayiv and Kherson regions.
In addition, Khromov said that as a result of the temporary occupation of Kherson the regional archive was seized and looted, he noted that the loss of these documents is not irretrievable. In particular, about half of the files from the Kherson archive were stolen and later taken to Crimea.
In addition, he said, at the moment there is no information about more than 120 archival institutions, which are either under occupation or in frontline zones.
