The Oleksiy Shovkunenko Art Museum in the city of Kherson is now said to be completely empty. Between October 31 and November 3, reports Kyiv Independent, “Russian occupying forces took ‘everything they saw, everything they could reach’ without even packing the works properly for transport”explains the online newspaper, citing a message from the museum’s management posted on Facebook.
The trucks took the direction of Crimea annexed by Russia, according to this message. The museum housed some 10,000 pieces.
In Kherson, “things are disappearing at a breakneck pace”confirm The Observer. Cultural goods therefore. But also “ambulances, tractors and cars”. “Even the bones of Grigori Potemkin, friend and lover of Catherine the Great, were taken from a crypt in St. Catherine’s Cathedral and carried away,” writes the British weekly. The booty is transported to the left bank of the Dnieper.
On October 28, the president