An international group of investigators has announced that it is charging four men — three Russian nationals and one Ukrainian — with causing the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine in 2014.What’s the background?On July 17, 2014, flight MH17 took off from Amsterdam, heading for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A few hours later, it crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 80 of whom were children.A year after the plane was shot down, Dutch investigators concluded that it had been hit by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile. The crash happened in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, …read more
Source: The Blaze