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UNESCO grants Odesa’s historic centre World Heritage in Danger status

January 25, 2023901 Views

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. 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 of Ukraine, and enable access to financial and technical international aid. Odesa has been bombed several times by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. A view shows a building in the historical centre, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Serhii Smolientsev In July 2022, part of the large glass roof and windows of Odesa’s Museum of Fine Arts, inaugurated in 1899,...

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‘Danger! mines’ – Odesa’s popular beaches now off limits

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June 11, 2022906 Views

Tourists once flocked to the Ukrainian resort of Odesa to lie on its Black Sea beaches, but the white sands are now covered in mines because of the war with Russia and police officers patrol the boardwalks. Ukraine's military planted mines along the coast in case of a Russian amphibious assault after Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion, cordoning off beach entrances with red and white tape to ensure civilians don't get hurt. Already reeling from the war, the local economy of the port city of Odesa in southwestern Ukraine will take a huge hit to its tourism industry this year. Long-time residents cannot imagine life in Odesa without the sand and sea. FILE PHOTO: Empty restaurant tables are seen next to an empty closed off beach in Odesa, Ukraine, June 6, 2022. REUTERS/Edgar Su "We can't ...