Alina Dotsenko

Alina Dotsenko is the director of the Kherson Art Museum in Ukraine. She gained international attention after the city of Kherson was retaken by Ukrainian forces in late 2022, and she returned to find that thousands of artworks had been looted from the museum by Russian forces during their occupation. The disappearance of these cultural artifacts has made Dotsenko a key figure in the effort to document and recover Ukraine's stolen cultural heritage. Her experience highlights the devastating impact of the war on Ukrainian culture and the challenges faced in preserving and reclaiming it. The looting of the Kherson Art Museum is part of a larger pattern of cultural destruction and theft allegedly perpetrated by Russian forces during the conflict, prompting Ukraine to work with Interpol to locate and recover the missing items.