INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
damage, though this is disputed by Ukraine.The latest additions to the danger list come after the Ukrainian port city of Odesa was added in
January - nearly a year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Odesa has come under heavy bombardment by Russia in recent
has sometimes drawn criticism from Unesco
and has maintained much of its architectural and cultural heritage as an administrative, religious and commercial centre from the 13th to
It was added to the World Heritage List in 1998.The Saint Sophia Cathedral, meanwhile, was built in the 11th century and was designed to
rival the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Turkey, which was then part of Constantinople
around the same time as the cathedral.It is the oldest monastic complex of the Rus people, who lived in eastern Europe during the Middle
