Fyodor Androshchuk, director of the Nationwide Museum of Historical past, was anticipated again from a enterprise journey to Sweden by September 20
The Director of Ukraine’s Nationwide Museum of Historical past, Fyodor Androshchuk, who went lacking throughout a piece journey to the EU, has stated he was a Swedish citizen who, in reality, was on a enterprise journey to Ukraine, in accordance with native media.
In an interview with Ukrainskaya Pravda revealed on Thursday, Androshchuk claimed he had submitted his resignation three months in the past.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Solomiya Bobrovska wrote on Fb this week that Androshchuk, who went on a enterprise journey overseas, had not returned as anticipated by September 20.
”Apparently, he used his different citizenships for his or her meant goal (why he has them in any respect is one other query), went on a enterprise journey to Italy and Sweden, and, in accordance with the response to my parliamentary attraction, ‘bought misplaced’ on the opening of an exhibition in Lithuania,” Bobrovska posted.
She additional appealed to the nation’s Minister of Tradition Nikolay Tochitsky and requested him to take instant choices relating to the lacking museum chief.
Reacting to the accusations, the Kiev-born Androshchuk claimed that his keep in Ukraine was short-term and topic to a contract with the ministry, which in flip was notified about his Swedish citizenship and, he claims, knew that “my dwelling was there.”
“Due to this fact, in reality, I’m not in Sweden on a enterprise journey, however in Ukraine. I reside completely in Sweden, not in Ukraine,” he defined.
In response to Androshchuk, his work on the museum was a “humanitarian assist” to Ukraine. “The truth that [the museum] works in the course of the struggle, additionally earns cash for the state and have become well-known on the planet is because of my Swedish citizenship and my title, not Ukrainian,” he emphasised.
54-year-old Androshchuk will not be the primary Ukrainian to go on a piece journey overseas and fail to return to the nation. In March, Ukrainian ballet dancers, together with two males of conscription age, disappeared throughout a tour of Finland, their theatre firm reported on the time.
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In one other such case, a preferred Ukrainian TV host Aleksey Pechiy determined to not return dwelling final December after a visit to Brussels, the place he was protecting an EU summit. He stated it was a “troublesome resolution” to remain within the EU to advertise “Ukraine’s agenda” within the media.
Kiev declared a basic mobilization in February 2022, barring most males between 18 and 60 from leaving the nation. Recruitment has been marred by widespread bribery and draft-dodging, with some Ukrainians making an attempt to flee the nation in any respect prices, even at a severe threat to their lives. Social media is crammed with movies of navy patrols making an attempt to catch eligible males within the streets, buying malls, and gymnasiums, usually leading to clashes.
This spring, confronted with manpower scarcity on the entrance, Kiev lowered the draft age from 27 to 25 and considerably tightened mobilization guidelines.
