The head of the Zaporizhia OVA Alexander Starukh denied the information that the Russian invaders stole a collection of Scythian gold dated to the 4th century BC. , from the Melitopol Museum of Local Lore. He announced this on the air of the telethon.

According to Starukh, all the most valuable items were taken from the museums of the Zaporozhye region to other regions of Ukraine in March of this year..

“Everything that was of historical and cultural value was completely removed from all museums,” said the head of the OVA.

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“What they saved there, well, good luck to them,” Starukh added..

The head of the Zaporizhia OVA also said that the second wave of evacuation of valuables from the museums of the region to other regions of the country is now underway..

Recall, on April 28, the Zaporizhzhya OVA announced the capture by the invaders of the Melitopol city museum of local lore. Then it was also reported about the theft of Scythian gold, which local collaborators helped the Russian military to find..

Earlier it became known that the invaders took more than two thousand unique exhibits from the museums of Mariupol to Donetsk.