Panoramic Painting 'Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855' Damaged in Drone Strike
A panoramic painting titled 'Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855' by Franz Roubaud was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike on June 10, 2026, at the Sevastopol Defense Panorama Museum. Firefighters extinguished a fire and flooded the 360-degree artwork during response efforts. There were no casualties.
Franz Roubaud’s panoramic painting 'Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855' was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike on June 10, 2026, at the Sevastopol Defense Panorama Museum. Firefighters extinguished a fire at the museum and flooded the 360-degree panorama during response efforts, according to nemoskva.net. There were no casualties from the strike. The Sevastopol Defense Museum reported that the best-preserved sections of the panorama depict the Defensive Tower on Malakhov Kurgan and the fortifications on the right flank of the Senyavin Battery. According to Meduza, Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, described the painting as 'virtually destroyed,' though the damage is consistently reported as resulting from the drone strike. The painting is the work of Franz Roubaud, who was French, later German, and from Odessa.
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