UN investigators found that Russian forces engaged in looting of Ukrainian cultural objects and archive documents from Kherson, transferring over 10,000 objects from the Kherson Regional Art Museum and 70% of documents from the State Archives to occupied Crimea.
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Russian authorities transferred cultural objects from the Kherson Regional Art Museum and archival documents from the State Archives of Kherson province to occupied Crimea during October-November 2022
Over 10,000 objects from the Museum and 70 per cent of the documents from the main building of the State Archive were removed
This cultural appropriation constitutes a war crime
Russian forces mounted three unsuccessful assaults on Ukrainian troop positions on the Kherson front
In the occupied areas, voting was held illegally at gunpoint.
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