It also contains a 50-car pileup of ideas all built to take full advantage of the PlayStation 5’s unique features. The hyper-stylized vehicular combat game is full of monster-sized cars, loud crashes, and bright colors. “We couldn’t stand the thought they could be lost.”ĪP journalist John Leicester in Paris contributed. “These things were fragile, they survived hundreds of years,” she said. For now, the museum is just showing copies. One day, she hopes, they’ll go back into their rightful place. She also dismantled exhibits, carefully packing away artifacts into boxes for evacuation. “We were afraid of the Russian occupiers, because they destroy everything that can be identified as Ukrainian,” recalled the director, Natalia Panchenko.įearing Russian troops would storm the city, she sought to confuse them by taking down the plaque on the museum’s entrance. In Kyiv, the director of the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine lived in the building, guarding its artifacts, during the invasion’s first weeks when Russian forces sought, unsuccessfully, to encircle the capital. Tens of thousands of items have been evacuated away from the front lines and combat-struck regions. While invasion forces hunted for treasures to steal, Ukrainian museum workers did what they could to keep them out of Russian hands. The museum worker said other treasures that disappeared with Russian soldiers include 198 pieces of 2,400-year-old gold from the era of the Scythians, nomads who migrated from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine and founded an empire in Crimea. The worker, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity, fearing Russian punishment for even discussing the events, said the Ukrainians don’t know where Russian troops took the haul, which included the tiara and some 1,700 other artifacts.ĭug up from a burial chamber in 1948, the crown is one of just a few Hun crowns worldwide. But after weeks of repeated searches, Russian soldiers finally discovered the building’s secret basement where staff had squirrelled away the museum’s most precious objects - including the Hun diadem, according to a museum worker.
Workers at the Museum of Local History in Melitopol first tried hiding the Hun diadem and hundreds of other treasures when Russian troops stormed the southern city. Everything that was built and created by generations of Ukrainians,” Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, said in September when she visited a Ukrainian museum in New York. “These are museums, historical buildings, churches. But if and when peace returns, the preservation of Ukrainian collections of art, history and culture also will be vital, so survivors of the war can begin the next fight: rebuilding their lives. “The attitude of Russians toward Ukrainian culture heritage is a war crime,” he said.įor the moment, Ukraine’s government and its Western backers supplying weapons are mostly focused on defeating Russia on the battlefield. The looting and destruction of cultural sites has caused losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros (dollars), the minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, added.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukraine’s culture minister alleged that Russian soldiers helped themselves to artifacts in almost 40 Ukrainian museums. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say. Russian troops carted away the priceless crown and a hoard of other treasures after capturing the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in February, museum authorities say. The Hun diadem is now vanished from the museum in Ukraine that housed it - perhaps, historians fear, forever. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500 years ago, was one of the world’s most valuable artifacts from the blood-letting rule of Attila the Hun, who rampaged with horseback warriors deep into Europe in the 5th century.
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