Today, Thursday, a Dutch court sentenced 3 men to life imprisonment on charges of shooting down the Malaysian Airlines plane, on its flight number “MH17” over Ukraine in 2014, a accident that killed 298 people.
In this regard, the president of the court, Hindirke Steinhis, said: “The court imposes a life sentence” on Russians Igor Gender, Sergey Dubinski, and Ukrainian Leonid Khartchenko, who were convicted of death and played a role in destroying the plane.
In July 2014, Malaysian Airlines stated that it had lost a plane on MH1 No. 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
In the aftermath of this, the investigation team continued its work to uncover the circumstances of the accident. He announced earlier that the plane, which was making the “MH 17”, landed as a result of a missile fired by a Russian unit in the airspace of eastern Ukraine.
The Netherlands and Australia, which 38 of its nationals among the victims, were accusing Russia of being responsible for the killing of their citizens after the international team for joint investigation revealed the circumstances of the accident.
Amid tight security in the Netherlands, the trial that started in March 2020, near Amsterdam, was conducted, because the Boeing 777 plane was connected to Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and most of the Dutch victims.
In a statement, the court announced that the judges set “November 17, 2022 in the criminal case of M. H -17”, and the French Press Agency quoted the court that the decision “will take part of the day and it is possible that it will be issued in the afternoon.
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And the three Russian Sergey Dubinski, Eugur Gender, Olig B sksov and Ukrainian Leonid Khartchenko are four senior separatist officials loyal to Russia in eastern Ukraine and accused of shooting down the plane with a surface -to -air missile.
Dutch prosecutors in December requested a life sentence for the four men, stressing that the suspects played a major role in delivering a “Book” anti -aircraft battery from Russia that was supposed to target a Ukrainian warplane.
None of the defendants who paid their innocence in the Netherlands and were tried in absentia. Only a representative of Barzlov..
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