Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi was acquired by the billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to the portal, but has since been sold on. Photograph: agefotostock/Alamy

From Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world.

But rather than being the highlights of a blockbuster exhibition at a major gallery, these are just some of the 300, and counting, pieces known to have been recently owned by Russian nationals under western sanctions that have been entered into a searchable database set up by Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP).