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'Rewriting history': Claim filed to ICC over Russian looting of Ukrainian heritage

A broken display case in the looted rooms of the Kherson Regional Museum, which specialises in the city's local and natural history, December 2022. AFP - DIMITAR DILKOFF

A French organisation has lodged a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the plundering of Ukrainian museums by Russia, which it claims is 'the biggest looting of cultural heritage in Europe during an international armed conflict since the Second World War'.

The looting of Ukrainian cultural property by Russia is "systematic, widespread and organised," the association Pour l'Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre ("For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours") said in its complaint to the ICC.

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