It’s almost the end of a long wait. The Dutch justice will deliver its verdict on November 17 in the trial for the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that flew over eastern Ukraine in 2014, the court announced Monday in The Hague.
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people.
An international team of investigators says the plane was shot down over the conflict zone with pro-Russian separatists by a missile brought in from a Russian military base, likely to fight Ukrainian forces. Moscow has always denied any involvement.
The trial, which began in March 2020, took place under tight security in the Netherlands, near Amsterdam, as the Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and most of the victims are Dutch.
Three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of shooting down the plane
The judges chose “November 17, 2022 … in the MH17 criminal trial,” the court said in a statement. The decision “will take part of the day and will probably take place in the afternoon.”
Three Russians, Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinski and Oleg Pulatov, and a Ukrainian, Leonid Kharchenko, all senior pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, are accused of shooting down Flight MH17 with a surface-to-air missile.
Source: BFM TV
