Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone

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Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone
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After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could

Leonid Marushchak with an art work by Ukrainian ceramicist Nina Fedorova, from his personal collection. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

An antique religious icon from Leonid Marushchak’s personal collection. Along with a motley crew of drivers and helpers, Marushchak has been working tirelessly – and dangerously – to retrieve and evacuate works of art from museums and cultural centres across eastern Ukraine before Russian forces have the chance to loot them.

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