An exhibition was opened in the temporarily occupied left-bank area of Kherson region using items stolen from the Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore.
This was reported on the museum’s Facebook page.
According to museum staff, the exhibition was assembled from items that Russian military illegally removed during the occupation of Kherson.
These include, in particular, belongings of sailors of the Danube Flotilla, award ribbon bars of Vasyl Margelov, the greatcoat of Oleksandr Dorofeyev, personal belongings of General Zakharii Vydryhan and other artifacts.
All of them have inventory numbers and are part of the State Museum Fund of Ukraine, the post says.
The museum emphasizes that moving these items without legal grounds is a violation of international humanitarian law and effectively the theft of cultural property.
The post also mentions former museum employee Tetyana Shandra, who appeared in a photo from the exhibition opening.
“It is bitter to see in the photographs of this farce a person who has lost the right to be called a museologist — former museum employee Tetyana Shandra. After all, culture cannot serve as a cover for looting. And ‘preserving historical memory’ does not begin with the theft of museum collections,” the museum staff wrote.