He stated this in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to him, there are already precedents that allow us to make appropriate assumptions, for example, the removal of icons from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra is already recorded, and objects from museums in Ukraine are allegedly transferred for storage to museums in a number of European countries.
“That is why we have every reason to believe that the Crimean artifacts may suffer a sad fate - we cannot exclude that they may be lost,” he said.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, called the situation with the transfer of Scythian gold to the Kyiv authorities theft.
In November 2023, the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam confirmed the transfer of the Scythian gold collection to Ukraine.