Cultural Restitution

July 28, 2022
UKRAINE
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UKRAINE

Updated January 2024

Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Ukraine, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.


January 2024

Looted artefacts from excavations in eastern and southern Ukraine, discovered by Estonian customs officials in a truck entering Estonia from Russia, are being returned to Ukraine

The Baltic Times


July 2023

The Dutch Supreme Court upholds an earlier ruling that 1,000 cultural objects, loaned to the Allard Pierson Museum in the Netherlands in 2014, must be returned to the State of Ukraine and not to Russian-held Crimea

Cultural Property News


July 2022

Ukrainian authorities uncover a trove of ancient Scythian weapons believed to have been looted from museums in occupied Crimea

OCCRP





More News


April 2, 2025
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different
March 28, 2025
A unique shell necklace believed to originate from the Bass Strait islands has been returned by The Hunterian collection to representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) who travelled to Glasgow to carry it home
March 14, 2025
Laying Ancestors to Rest pulls no punches. The recommendations made in a new policy brief published by the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) include making the sale of human remains illegal and putting an end to the public display of ancestral remains