Ukraine’s largest art museum evacuated!

According to the visual correspondent of Fars News Agency, quoted by EuronewsThe staff of the Andrei Sheptitsky Museum, Ukraine’s largest museum in Lviv, are working to protect the collection’s precious and unique works of art from possible Russian invasion.

The city of Lviv, a region with a diverse and predominantly Catholic population, is the largest city in western Ukraine. Andrei Sheptitsky, a figure named after the museum, was one of the leading priests of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

The United States and a number of other Western nations relocated their embassies from Kiev to Lviv before the Russian invasion began on February 24. Although the likelihood of a Russian invasion of western Ukraine was low at first, fears of an occupation of western parts of Ukraine escalated following Emmanuel Macron’s telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin last week.

The Andrei Sheptitsky Museum has been closed since the first day of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The staff of this collection tries to place thousands of antiquities and works of art, including paintings, sculptures and rare manuscripts, in safe warehouses. “We do not know at all whether there is really a safe place or not,” said one museum employee.

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