This museum theft is the largest in Europe since World War II.Those who oversaw the theft are Dmitry Lipov, head of the communications center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, who served as the city's commandant during the occupation of Kherson, Sergey Patrushev, appointed by the Russian authorities to head the museum department of the so-called Crimean Ministry of Culture, Elena Morozova and Mikhail Smorodkin, appointed by the Russian authorities as directors of the Crimean museums, Tauric Chersonese and the Museum of Defense of Sevastopol.The findings are the basis for the Kyiv Independent's War Crimes Investigation Unit's documentary "Curated Theft."Russia’s looting of history is a theft of who we areI first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024.