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Russians snatch 15,000 museum exhibits from Kherson Region to Crimea

Among them are paintings dating back to the 17th-20th centuries and modern art.

Russians snatch 15,000 museum exhibits from Kherson Region to Crimea
Kharkiv Art Museum

Four trucks with looted property have arrived in Simferopol in occupied Crimea, Sprotyv has reported.

"According to our underground, the Russians removd the property of the Kherson Art Museum named after Oleksiy Shovkunenko. The museum also has a branch in Nova Kakhovka. Among the collections and funds of the museum on permanent display are icons of the 17th - early 20th centuries, Ukrainian art of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries," it said.

It is noted that the Kherson Art Museum also presented works of contemporary artists. In total, almost 15,000 exhibits were taken out of the museum's fund, as well as other cultural institutions of Kherson Region.

"Not only cultural values were removed by the occupiers. Russians, according to their tradition, stole plumbing, including toilets, and household appliances," Sprotyv said.

Earlier it was reported that the occupiers looted the Kherson Art Museum.

 

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