Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) together with Dutch law enforcers have found several paintings which were stolen in the Netherlands in 2005, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"Together (in cooperation with the Dutch police) we have found several paintings that were stolen from a Dutch museum many years ago," he said at a briefing at the SBU office on Thursday.

During the briefing, several paintings, which, according to Klimkin, were in the hands of criminals, were shown to the press.