Monitoring Archaeological Heritage in the Conditions  of War: Damage and Military Use of The Mounds Near Vesela Hora Village in Luhansk Oblast

S. A.  Telizhenko

doi:10.15407/arheologia2025.01.110

S. A. Telizhenko PhD, Academic Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1677-4900

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/arheologia2025.01.110

Keywords: Luhansk Oblast, barrow group, archaeology of war, archaeological monitoring.

Abstract

To date, there is no exact number of objects of archaeological heritage that have suffered as a result of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The publication provides information about a barrow group damaged by the Russian occupiers which is located near Vesela Hora village in Luhansk Oblast.

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