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By Tobias Carroll In recent years, there’s been an increasing level of attention paid to illegally obtained art, some of it looted during wartime, other pieces obtained by illicit means. Now, that narrative has intersected the war in Ukraine, and if you happen to be in London (or plan to visit sometime soon), you can see the place where the two converge at the British Museum. The Art Newspaper‘s Martin Bailey reports that law enforcement seized a large number of Ukrainian antiquities when they were mailed to an address in the United Kingdom with the intention of selling them on the internet. N…