The director of the National Museum of History of Ukraine did not return from his foreign business trip

The director of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, Fedir Androshchuk, left for an overseas assignment and has not returned.

This was reported by MP Solomiia Bobrovska on her Facebook page.

According to Bobrovska, the term of his assignment expired on September 20.

“…The assignment term ended on September 20. Apparently, he took advantage of his other citizenships (why he has them is another question), departed for an assignment in Italy and Sweden, and, according to the response to my parliamentary inquiry, got ‘lost’ while attending the opening of an exhibition in Lithuania. I hope that all the availablThe director of the National Museum of History of Ukraine did not return from his foreign business trip.e information will lead to immediate managerial decisions regarding the current director. I am addressing this to the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine,” the MP wrote.

She added that, given the significance of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine—one of the country’s most renowned institutions, with a collection of 800,000 artifacts reflecting the history of the nation’s formation—such a director is “a disgrace, to put it mildly.”

Last year, the Ministry of Sports published a list of 236 athletes who failed to return from abroad after being granted permission to leave for sports events.

Similarly, this spring, three leading artists of the Lviv Opera did not return to Ukraine after tours in Finland and Estonia.