MCIP plans to create a depository to store evacuated valuables - Karandieiev

Rostyslav Karandieiev, the acting Minister of Culture and Information Policy, stated this in an interview with Ukrinform.

"We have developed a preliminary project and held preliminary talks with representatives of the Japanese government, representatives of Sweden, and Poland. We are striving to implement a project to build a large depository for the preservation of evacuated valuables, as well as to renovate the storage facilities in our Ukrainian museums," Karandieiev said.

According to him, the MCIP already has support for the project from foreign partners.

"We have found support not only in words as we have relevant documents prepared," the acting minister said.

He also noted that the Ministry is creating a register of museum objects.

"We have developed a register of museum objects. It is in the final stage of its legalization, and we will soon start filling it out. The register of stolen monuments will become a part of it. This work is important from the point of view of formulating the right legal decisions that will be presented to the aggressor state after the war to show what was destroyed, lost, and stolen," the minister emphasized.

As of early July, 1,085 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine were damaged or destroyed as a result of Russian aggression.