https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63637625
"A Dutch court has found three men guilty of murder for shooting down a
passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people.
The court found that a Russian-made missile supplied from Russia and fired by
an armed group under Russian control brought down flight MH17.
The men - two Russians and one Ukrainian - were found guilty in absentia and
sentenced to life in jail. A third Russian was acquitted.
The missile attack was one of the most notorious war crimes in Ukraine before
allegations of atrocities there became an almost daily reality.
Many of the victims' relatives believe if the world had reacted differently,
and taken a tougher stance against Russia eight years ago, the invasion of
Ukraine and the geopolitical instability that has followed could have been
avoided.
The judges ruled that it was a deliberate action to bring down a plane, even
though the three found guilty had intended to shoot down a military not a
civilian aircraft.
* Igor Girkin, the military leader of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic,
was convicted of deploying the missile and seeking Russian help
* Sergei Dubinsky was found to have ordered and overseen the transport of the
Buk missile launcher
* Leonid Kharchenko was found to have overseen the Buk, acting on Dubinsky's
instructions.
Oleg Pulatov was the only one of the four accused to have legal representation
at the trial. The judges acquitted him, although they found he knew about the
missile."
Via Susan ****
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*** Xanni ***
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