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Ancient Scythian artifacts from museums in Russian-occupied Crimea have been returned to Ukraine after a legal dispute over ownership rights during which they spent almost a decade in the Netherlands, a Ukrainian museum said on Monday.

Ukraine's acting Minister of Culture Rostyslav Karandeev presented some of the artifacts to media on Tuesday.

More than a thousand artifacts, including a solid gold Scythian helmet and golden neck ornament, were on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum when Russian troops seized and annexed the peninsula in 2014.

Both Ukraine and the museums located on the Moscow-controlled territory claimed ownership rights to the pieces when the exhibition ended. The items date from when the Scythian people lived in the area between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC.

It took almost 10 years of court hearings for the artifacts from four Crimean museums that were presented at the exhibition 'Crimea: gold and secrets of the Black Sea' in Amsterdam to return to Ukraine, the National Museum of History of Ukraine said.

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