🛑 BREAKING: A well-known Russian archaeologist has been detained in Poland at Ukraine’s request According to investigators, after the annexation of Crimea, Aleksandr Butyagin led an archaeological expedition for the Hermitage Museum. He had no permits from Ukrainian authorities, yet he carried out excavations at a protected heritage site — the “Ancient City of Myrmekion” in Kerch. The Russian citizen was only passing through Poland on his way from the Netherlands, where he had been giving a series of lectures. After questioning him, the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office decided to place the “Hermitage representative” in temporary custody. Butyagin will now spend at least 40 days not in a European hotel room, but on a prison bunk.