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Kyiv has welcomed the return of hundreds of Crimean gold treasures after a nine-year legal battle with Moscow, as deadly storms swept southern parts of Russia and Ukraine, and Nato warned that a Kremlin victory in the war would embolden China and other authoritarian states. “After almost 10 years of court hearings, artefacts from four Crimean museums that were presented at the exhibition Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea in Amsterdam have returned to Ukraine,” the country’s national history museum said on Monday. “It is there that they will be kept until the de-occupation of Crimea,” the museum...