298 people died in 2014 when MH17 was struck by what international investigators say was a Russian surface-to-air missile
Members of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the village of Hrabove in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in 2014. Picture: REUTERS
“They are lying, we know they are lying and they know that we know that they are lying,” Ria van der Steen, who lost her father and stepmother on the flight, told the court, saying she was citing the late Soviet dissident writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Van der Steen made the remarks about lying in Russian, explaining that she did so “for the benefit of those who are listening in on behalf of the Russian regime today.”
“I still cannot fathom that our family is caught up in a frustrating and deadly political crisis,” Rizk, who lost both her parents in the crash when she was 22, told the judges via video link. She stressed her parents had no role in any of the politics that led to their deaths.
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