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It pertains to the icon that he gave to the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov, and which Ukraine claims was stolen from the Lugansk region. In a note that Banja Luka s Alternative Television had access to, the Embassy of Ukraine in Bosnia-Herzegovina was asked to explain the basis for the claims that the icon is the cultural heritage of that country, to present relevant evidence that is not based on Internet sources and to explain and present evidence to whom and in what period it belonged. The letter points out that, according to the Cabinet, the icon in question is not on any list of protected, lost or alienated cultural treasures of any country.