Glass vessel

Vnukov is the head of the Crimean New Construction Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the russian Academy of Sciences, which has been operating in the occupied territories of Ukraine since 2014, and which is held under the auspices and with the support of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science of the russian federation "Institute of Archaeology of the russian Academy of Sciences" (IA RAS). In order to conduct excavations and alienate cultural property, Vnukov annually during 2014-2023 sent requests to the Ministry of Culture of the russian Ffederation to obtain permits (open letters) to organise and conduct such events. Vnukov carried out excavations on the territory of the Ukrainian archaeological monuments "Belyaus Settlement", "Kulchuk Settlement", ‘"Kulchuk Necropolis" (Chornomorsk district, Crimea), on the territory of the "Kara-Tobe Settlement"(Saki, Crimea), and other sites of archaeological monuments of Ukraine in the occupied territory of the Crimean peninsula. Some of the archaeological sites where Vnukov carried out archaeological activities were fully or partially destroyed as part of the occupation authorities' further implementation of infrastructure construction projects.

Іnvolved in illegal archaeological excavations in 2017 on the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, namely: "Frontovoye 3 burial ground", "Frontovoye 4 settlement", "Stena 1 settlement"

From 2021 to 2022, she received 2 permits from the Ministry of Culture of the russian Federation for illegal archaeological work on the territory of the temporarily occupied peninsula of Crimea. Participated in the excavation of the Tiritaksky and Bezkrovnyi ramparts, as well as the settlement "Gorodishche 11 km".

In 2018, he received 5 permits, and from 2020 to 2021 - 10 permits from the Ministry of Culture of the russian federation for illegal archaeological work on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula. He took part in the excavations of the Frontove-3 cemetery and the 11th kilometre settlement