Ukrainian Officials Accuse Russian Forces of Looting Thousands of Priceless Gold Artifacts and Works of Art | Artnet News

Officials in Ukraine accuse Russian forces of massive looting of artworks and historical artifacts in Mariupol and Melitopol:

to the Mariupol history museum.said included work by 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, and renowned Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky as well as a unique handwritten Torah scroll, and the Gospel of 1811.

“The orcs have taken hold of our Scythian gold.” Melitopol’s mayor Ivan Fyodorov told local media, using a common derogatory term for Russian soldiers. “This is one of the largest and most expensive collections in Ukraine, and today we don’t know where they took it,” he added.Leila Ibrahimova, the director of the Melitopol Museum of Local History,that when Russian forces started shelling the region in late February, she and other museum workers secretly hid the gold and other important historic artifacts in cardboard boxes, “in a dank cellar where they didn’t think anyone would find it.

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