Volunteers assemble sandbags to cover a marble sculpture of Saint Andrew, the first of the twelve disciples of Christ, in Kyiv on Tuesday. Photo: Sergei Supinsky/VCG

Volunteers cover a Cyril and Methodius sculpture with sandbags in Kyiv Monday. The sculpture honors the two brothers’ efforts in spreading the Gospel throughout Eastern Europe in the ninth century. Photo: Maxym Marusenko/VCG

Sandbags are placed around the Princess Olga monument in Kyiv on Tuesday. Photo: VCG

Built in 1911, the Princess Olga monument is located in Mykhailivska Square, one of the oldest squares in Kyiv. Photo: Maxym Marusenko/VCG

The head of a Dante Alighieri statue, located in Kyiv, is draped with sandbags on Friday. The Italian poet and scholar is best known for his long narrative poem “The Divine Comedy.” Photo: Evgen Kotenko/VCG

Sandbags are piled high around the monument of Duke de Richelieu on March 14 in Odesa, Ukraine. The Frenchman was one of the early governors of Odesa. Photo: Scott Peterson/VCG

A statue of the Roman god Neptune stands covered in protective material on March 5 in Market Square in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo: Daniel Leal/VCG

A status wrapped in nonflammable cloth on March 8 in Lviv. Photo: VCG

Pedestrians walk past wrapped statues at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Lviv on March 5. Photo: Daniel Leal/VCG

A statue in Lviv is protected from possible damage on March 3. Photo: Pau Venteo/VCG

Workers cover a monument of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, a Ukrainian political and civic leader, on Thursday in Kyiv. Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak/VCG

Ukraine is home to more than 140,000 monuments and objects of immovable cultural heritage, such as the monument to Prince Volodymyr the Great in Kyiv. Photo: Pavlo Bagmut/VCG