ទាំងនេះគឺជាស្នាដៃសិល្បៈអ៊ុយក្រែនដ៏ល្បីល្បាញបំផុតមួយចំនួនដែលត្រូវបានលួចដោយរុស្ស៊ី

In May, local officials in Mariupol said Russian forces had លួច more than 2,000 pieces of art from three museums and took them to the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, after troops captured the city, including paintings by Ukrainian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and Russian romantic painter Ivan Aivazovsky.

Three Kuindzhi paintings—“Elbrus,” “Autumn, Crimea” and a sketch of the painting “Red Sunset on the Dnieper” were removed from the Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol before the building was hit by an airstrike in March, although they were later handed to Russian forces, យោង​ទៅ​តាម Petro Andryushchenko, an aide to Mariupol’s mayor.

Ukrainian officials said Russian troops in April guarded a mysterious man in a white lab coat who they said stole a 4th century B.C. gold helmet worn in the Scythian Empire from the Melitopol Museum of Local History, in southern Ukraine, ទម្រង់យូក្រិន reported, with Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov saying, “the orcs have taken hold of our Scythian gold.”

The stolen artwork also includes an estimated 10,000 pieces of art from the Kherson Art Museum’s collection of roughly 13,500 pieces, according to an employee who said she was confronted by people who claimed to work at Russian museums who trapped her inside while they took the pieces, the កាសែត Wall Street Journal បានរាយការណ៍។

The art also included paintings such as “Piquet on the Bank of the River. Sunset” by Ivan Pokhitonov, which reportedly later appeared at a museum in Crimea, the កាសែត New York Times បានរាយការណ៍។

Other pieces, including ancient Greek artifacts and documents, as well as 90% of a collection of weapons were also reportedly seized from the Kherson Regional Museum by a group of men who loaded them onto trucks, museum manager Olena Yeremenko told the ទិនានុប្បវត្តិ, accusing the retreating forces of planning to “destroy our history.”

Russian troops also took the bones of Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, the lover of former Russian Empress Catherine the Great, who founded the city in 1778, from a vault in Kherson under specific orders from the Kremlin, the ដង រាយការណ៍នៅក្នុងខែមេសា។

Paintings were also taken from the Oleksii Shovkunenko Art Museum in Kherson, including “Autumn Time” by Georgy Kurnakov, the មូស្គូថែមស៍ បានរាយការណ៍។

A statue of 18th century Russian General Alexander Suvorov was also taken from the city, PBS NewsHour ។ បានរាយការណ៍។