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Ancient swords returned to Ukraine that Russians tried to smuggle into the United States
An official ceremony of returning cultural and historical valuables to Ukraine took place on the territory of the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States. They were detained in September of last year by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection during an attempt to illegally import them from the Russian Federation.
This is reported on the page of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.
Among the returned artifacts are the following objects:
sword-akinakes of the Scythian culture, 6th–5th centuries BCE;
knapped flint axe dating to the third millennium BCE;
Kipchak-style sabers from the era of the medieval state of Kievan Rus' (11th–12th centuries).
"We will return everything that Russia stole from us — territories, people, works of art, and cultural heritage. We start right now. Thank you to the law enforcement agencies of the United States and Ukraine, to Ukraine's ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova, and to all those involved who carried out this operation," said Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.
In the future, the issue of transporting the rescued assets to Ukraine will be resolved.
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