City council is reportedly preparing materials to initiate criminal proceedings over mass cultural looting
Highlights
- Russian forces have accused Russian forces of seizing “over 2,000 artworks” from museums in the occupied city of Mariupol and moving the pieces to areas of the Russian-controlled Donbas region.
- The haul includes several original works by the 19th-century.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ‘lost’ the art of Russian landscape in which he rejected Ukraine’s independent identity, language and traditions,” the city council said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel on Thursday.
- ‘The occupiers ‘liberated’.
- They stole and moved and moved more than 2.000. exhibits from.
- museums in Mariupols,’ council said.