The results of our estimates based on this group of parameters are shown below in Table 4, which also indicates both absolute and relative meanings in percentages of the total number of lost monuments. It should be noted that this data is tentative, as the exact cause of every case involving a destroyed architectural monument is not known.

The specific weight of each group of causes for total losses of architectural monuments is shown in diagram 1. Table 4 and the diagram indicate that the highest number of losses of Ukrainian architectural monuments stammed from Communist policies aimed at the destruction of the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people/ Nearly two-thirds of all losses are attributed to this cause. The second most important group of causes behind the loss of approximately 20 percent of Ukrainian architectural monuments is of a utilitarian, i.e., mostly economic, nature. The proportion of losses due to wartime destruction and damage due to various natural disasters, mostly fires, is unexpectedly low. Included in this category are "natural" fires only, not arosen attacks on wooden churches, which were carried out either on orders from Communist party organs during the 1960s-1980s or were the result of an inter-confessional struggle. Indeed, it is difficult to include "inter-confessional arson" in any of the above-mentioned groups of causes, but they are most similar to the last group, i.e., the low level of culture of both the local leadership and the population.