About 1.5M museum exhibits remained in temporarily occupied territories – Karandieiev

Ukraine's Acting Minister of Culture and Information Picy, Rostyslav Karandieiev, said this on Ukrainian television, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"We lost a lot of museum exhibits. Some of them were looted, and some of them were damaged by enemy shelling. According to our approximate estimates, about 1.5 million exhibits are now in the occupied territory, and their fate is currently unknown to us," Karandieiev said.

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He noted that there are also losses in the de-occupied territories. Russian invaders viate international law and apprriate what does not belong to them.

"We document these crimes. This is done in two ways. First, according to international protocs jointly with UNESCO, as well as according to our national ones. And there will soon be a time when, based on these testimonies, these documents, we will be able to prepare lawsuits against the aggressor state, which will certainly find their fair sution," Karandieiev said.

Earlier reports said that 453,000 museum objects had been evacuated due to Russia's war against Ukraine.