The military of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied Melitopol seized the city museum of local lore, which kept Scythian gold dated to the 4th century. BC. Valuable property stolen. The seizure of the museum on April 28 was announced by the Zaporozhye Regional Military Administration.

" The Colobronts indicated to the Russians the place where the Scythian gold is stored, which was discovered by archaeologists in the 50s of the last century,"

The local publication Melitopol City reported that back in February, the city administration and museum staff hid a collection of Scythian gold. All the time since the beginning of the occupation, the Russians purposefully searched for the collection. According to the publication, a video was shown in pro-Russian public pages, as the collaborator Evgeny Gorlachev, appointed by the Russians as the director of the museum, says that his like-minded people spent a lot of effort and energy on this.. The location of the collection was given by collaborators.

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Recall that the invaders stole more than 2 thousand unique exhibits from the museums of Mariupol.