AMSTERDAM – A court in Amsterdam ruled on Dec. 14 that hundreds of ancient Crimean treasures on loan to a museum in the Netherlands should be sent to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, rather than to Russia-controlled Crimea, after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle over their ownership.
The judgment is an important moment in the protracted dispute between Ukraine and the museums in Crimea that lent the pieces, including ancient Scythian gold and Chinese lacquer boxes.
