Russians looted Nova Kakhovka's Historical Museum and took everything away to Crimea
When they retreated from Kherson Oblast, the Russians stole a collection of artefacts that belonged to the Historical Museum in Nova Kakhovka and took them to temporarily occupied Crimea.
Source: press service of the National Resistance Center
Details: The National Resistance Center reports that all the artefacts from the museum have been taken to Crimea.
Reference: The museum had over 16,000 items in its collection. Some of its most valuable exhibits are anthropomorphic steles from the Yamna culture (3rd millennium BC), ancient Greek amphoras (3rd-2nd millennia BC), mace pommels from the catacomb culture (2nd millennium BC), Scythian ritual pommels (5th century BC), a Sarmatian gold earring (3rd-1st centuries BC), Cuman stone figures of women (16th-17th centuries), early medieval chandeliers, and many others.
The museum also had a collection of firearms and bladed Turkish weapons dating back to the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Background:
- Earlier, the occupiers looted 15,000 paintings from the Oleksii Shovkunenko Art Museum in Kherson and took them away.
- The Russian occupiers have also removed valuable stock from the Oles Honchar library in Kherson.
- In early November, the occupiers stole late 18th and early 19th-century icons from a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Enerhodar.
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