US EditionRussia Looted Ukrainian Artist’s Masterpieces and Then Killed His Great-Grandson
David Chichkan volunteered in the infantry to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion and was a key figure in the anti-authoritarian movement for over 20 years.
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Anarchist artist David Chichkan killed in Ukraine
He was widely known for his depictions of social struggles in Ukraine and people fighting against the Russian invasion ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ David Chichkan, a Ukrainian anarchist and artist who dedicated 20 years of his life to the struggle, was killed by Russian forces on 9 August in the area near Zaporizhzhia in south east Ukraine. Born in Kyiv in 1986, he began his creative career in the early 2000s. Joining the military over a year ago, he volu…
Leonid Chichkan's painting "Fish" 1974. Photo: @art_museum_ks In 2022, Russian occupiers removed works by the great-grandfather of the fallen soldier and artist David Chichkan from the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after Oleksiy Shovkunenko. Later, several of these works were discovered in the Central Museum of Taurida in occupied Crimea. The Kherson Regional Art Museum reported this on its social networks. David Chichkan is a Ukrainian arti…
This was reported by journalist, human rights activist and military man Maxim Butkevich on facebook. In the Zaporizhzhya direction, repelling the attack of the enemy, David Chichkan died. Bright memory. Honor. Heroes do not die,” Butkevich wrote. As his colleagues from the “Committee of Resistance” clarified, on August 8, repelling the assault of enemy infantry in the Zaporizhzhya direction, David Chichkan was seriously wounded. On August 9, in …
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