On the night of January 1st, as a result of an attack by Russian drones in Lviv, the museum of the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Roman Shukhevych, was destroyed. In Dublyany on the outskirts of Lviv, the building of an agricultural university from the early 20th century was damaged.
This was reported by the Mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, Maxim Kozitsky, and the State Emergency Service.
As Kozitsky reported, fragments of a drone hit the museum of Roman Shukhevych. According to Sadovyi, the building is completely destroyed.
Lost memorial items of Shukhevych, including furniture such as a table, chairs, an armchair, and a piano. The most valuable museum exhibits, about 600 units, were relocated to a safe place at the beginning of the full-scale war.
"The most valuable monument is the building, which has been destroyed," says Petro Slobodyan, deputy director of the Lviv Historical Museum, which includes the Shukhevych Museum.
The museum building is located in the locality (formerly a village) of Bilohorshcha on the outskirts of Lviv. The building is both historical and memorial, as it housed the clandestine apartment of Roman Shukhevych, who led the UPA, since 1949. Shukhevych hid from Soviet authorities here, and it was in this building that he died on March 5, 1950.
On this day, his move from there was planned, as the NKVD had captured his liaison, Daria Husiak (who died last year at the age of 98). However, in the morning, representatives surrounded the building and the entire area of Bilohorshcha with security forces. The operation involved more than 700 soldiers of the internal troops, led by the MGB general and intelligence officer Pavlo Sudoplatov, who had previously eliminated the founder and leader of the OUN, Yevhen Konovalets, in Rotterdam. Shukhevych tried to break out of the encirclement, killing a major from the MGB, but he himself was wounded. To avoid falling alive into the hands of the enemy, Roman Shukhevych shot himself in the temple.
In addition, fragments of the 'shaheed' fell in the town of Dublyany on the outskirts of Lviv, hitting the main building of the Lviv National University of Life Sciences (formerly Higher Agricultural School, Agricultural Academy). The building is an architectural monument from the early 20th century.
As a result of the drone fragment impact on the historical building, the roof covering an area of 600 square meters and the floor structure covering an area of 120 square meters were destroyed, and windows were shattered.
