Russia systematically exports museum valuables from Ukraine, currently it is about two million exhibits. About this reported Mykola Tochytskyi, Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine.
“2025 will be the year of preservation and sustainability. It is important to ensure that no crime against cultural heritage goes unpunished. The Russian Empire has always appropriated our history and sought to destroy our culture, and therefore our identity. In the third year of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the understanding that that culture is a key element of our national security”, the minister noted.
In his opinion, the cultural component is no less important than the military or economic one. After all, it is through culture that the national identity, consciousness and stability of the people are formed.
“The Russian Federation organizes and conducts illegal archaeological excavations, destroying the cultural layer, removing cultural values, moving them outside the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. Just think: we are not talking about thousands or even tens of thousands, but about 2 million museum exhibits that remain in the temporarily occupied territories”, – emphasized the minister.
Tochytsky noted that despite significant destruction of monuments, Ukrainians will make every effort to restore and preserve them.
