AMSTERDAM – The Dutch court in charge of the killing of 4 suspects in the attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 announced Monday that it will deliver its verdict on November 17.
Prosecutors say a Ukrainian and the three Russian defendants, all of whom are at large, helped supply a missile formula that Russian-backed separatists used to launch a rocket at the plane on July 17, 2014. The others 298 people on board were killed. .
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The indictment is life in prison for all suspects.
Lawyers for Oleg Pulatov, the only defendant who chose to participate in the process through a lawyer, argued that the trial was unfair and that prosecutors had not thought well about the theories of choice about the cause of Pulatov’s turn of fate or involvement.
The other suspects, named Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko, are being tried in absentia. Under Dutch law, Pulatov is also a fugitive, he is not considered to have been tried in absentia because he is represented by lawyers. who you have commissioned.
The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit over the Donetsk region controlled by Ukrainian rebels through what foreign investigators have called a Russian-made surface-to-air missile. The eastern region also has a key component of Russia. on the six-month war in Ukraine.
Most of the victims aboard MH17 were Dutch nationals. The Dutch government considers Russia to be at fault for the accident. The Moscow government denies any involvement.
The MH17 affair seriously strained the Netherlands’ diplomatic relations with Moscow, even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24.
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