A broken glass display case in the looted halls of the Kherson Regional Art Museum, in Ukraine.

Putin’s Gold Rush

Russian archaeologists are looting Ukrainian museums of gold, artifacts, and weapons that the Kremlin says prove that Russia is an ancient civilization many thousands of years old. (It’s not)

By Andrew Ryvkin

This war isn’t about the future. It’s about the past—and a fictional one, at that.

In September, as Kyiv braced for another winter of Russian attacks and the West scoured the world for fighter jets, air defenses, and, most importantly, money to finance Ukraine’s existential battle, an unusual weapons transfer took place in D.C.