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Ukraine war: Preserving culture

How Ukrainian art was brought out of Kyiv to safety in Spain and how other artefacts belonging to the National Museum of Ukraine are being protected.

In this epsiode of Business Daily Ashish Sharma looks at how the art world has tried to preserve UkraineΒ΄s cultural and artistic heritage from the ongoing war.

Hear the story of how valuable Ukrainian paintings were put on trucks and sneaked out of Ukraine as Russia began heavily bombing the country. Thanks to the idea of one art collector they are now on display in a museum in Madrid.

Ashish also managed to link up with Kyiv to speak to the Director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Yulia Lytvynets and Nadia Tymchuk the CEO of the MuseumΒ΄s Charitable Foundation about how they are trying to protect important artefacts and preserve Ukrainian culture.

Presenter/producer: Ashish Sharma

(Photo: Exhibition of Ukrainian art in Spain. Credit: Getty Images)

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Thu 23 Feb 2023 08:32GMT

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