NIEUWEGEIN, THE NETHERLANDS – Three Russians and a Ukrainian will face murder charges for the July 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in which 298 people were killed.
The trial will start in the Netherlands next March, an investigation team said yesterday.
The suspects are likely to be tried in absentia, however, as the Netherlands has said Russia has not co-operated with the investigation and is not expected to hand anyone over.
The Dutch-led international team tasked with assigning criminal responsibility for the plane’s destruction named the four suspects as Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov, and …read more
Source: AsiaOne
