"The objects will remain in the depositories of the Amsterdam Museum and will remain there either for three months, which are allotted for cassation, or during the consideration of the cassation," RIA Novosti quotes Meyer.

He added that the decision to challenge it has not yet been made - there are still three months for this.

“If we fight further, it will take a year or a little more,” the human rights activist explained.

Meyer noted his disappointment with the decision in favor of Ukraine and stressed that the Crimean artifacts "were never part of Ukraine."

The collection of Scythian gold was taken from Crimea for an exhibition at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in 2014.

After the Crimea became part of Russia, both the museums of the peninsula and Ukraine declared their rights to gold.

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal, after several years of proceedings, ruled to transfer the Scythian gold to the ownership of Ukraine.