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Kyiv authorities handed over to the Netherlands on Sept. 16 five masterpieces stolen from a Dutch museum in 2005 and recovered in Ukraine earlier this year.

The paintings – part of a group of 24 works valued at 10 million euros when they went missing in 2005 – were said in December to have been discovered in a villa in a pro-Russian separatist controlled area of eastern Ukraine.

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