Ukraine. Crucifixion. Tribunal: an Exhibition to Open in the USA

The “Ukraine. Crucifixion. Tribunal” project, focusing on the Russian-Ukrainian war, will be showcased in the United States (at 866 United Nations Plaza in New York) on March 31st, MCIP reported.

The international exhibition aims to raise awareness about the need for a Special International Tribunal to hold Russia accountable for the crime of aggression. The exhibit is timely, given that the UN is set to vote on a resolution establishing a special international mechanism to penalize the aggressor state.

The museum showcases over 1,000 exhibits within an area of 16,000 square feet. These artefacts are organized into structured blocks, presenting important topics related to the war.

Some notable exhibits include enemy uniforms, boots, and shoes bearing the five-pointed Russian star inherited from the Soviet era. Enemy maps display thorough preparations for the invasion, including one used by a Russian saboteur group that attempted to capture Kyiv. Impressive images taken on March 8, 2022, offer a glimpse into life in the Ukrainian capital on the 13th day of the war.

Military equipment, ammunition, insignia, documents, diaries, personal letters, children’s drawings, newspapers, and everyday items provide insight into the actions of the so-called “second strongest” army in the world, which disregarded all moral boundaries.

The genocide of Ukrainians is evidenced by the countless burials and mass graves, with demonstrative photos from the newly de-occupied town of Izium in the Kharkiv Oblast taken during a museum expedition in October 2022. The exhibition also showcases a door from a school in Yahidne village (Chernihiv region) where the Russians detained over 360 people, including children and the elderly, for almost a month. A charcoal calendar on the door lists the people who were shot dead by the occupiers and those who died due to unbearable living conditions.

The exhibition also highlights how Russian troops destroyed schools, universities, kindergartens, orphanages, museums, memorials, churches, temples, cathedrals, and monuments with missile strikes, shelling, and bombardment. Burnt desks and chairs from the destroyed school in Izium and a damaged “wounded” icon from St. Dimitry of Rostov Church in Makariv are among the evidence on display.

The exhibition also presents giant banners and other propaganda materials used to hold the pseudo-referendum on the annexation of the occupied region to the Russian Federation, demonstrating the Russian ideological machine’s long preparations for the invasion.

Russian military presence in the occupied territories was marked by mass looting, including the discovery of an Apple tablet PC and laptop instead of armour plates in a bulletproof vest worn by a killed Russian soldier.

The exhibition is part of the “Ukraine. Crucifixion” project, the world’s first stationary artefact-based exhibition on the Russian-Ukrainian war, created during the same war. The project was first presented in Kyiv on May 8, 2022, and has become a platform for various cultural and informational activities.

The project was supported by the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, and the Consulate General of Ukraine in New York. The exhibition’s creator is the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.