title: Countering illicit trafficking of cultural property in Ukraine
abstract: The article is devoted to problematic issues of prevention and fight against the illegal trafficking of cultural property on the territory of Ukraine. After the restoration of independence, important national cultural property has been exported from Ukraine, and its territory has been used for the transit of stolen foreign cultural property. Despite the ratification of the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Prope