Investigators to put four Russian nationals and Ukrainian on trial over 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines aircraft
International investigators present their latest findings in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, nearly five years after the crash that killed 298 passengers and crew, in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, June 19, 2019. Picture: REUTERS / EVA PLEVIERInternational investigators have charged four people with murder over the 2014 shooting down of flight MH17 above rebel-held eastern Ukraine in which 298 people were killed.
“Today we will send out international arrest warrants for the first suspects that we will prosecute. They will also be placed on national and international wanted lists,” Wilbert Paulissen, chief constable of the Netherlands National Police, told a news conference. Wreckage was spread over a wide area in an incident that plunged relations between Moscow and the West, already tense over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, deep into crisis.
Asked if she personally blamed anyone for the crash, Fredriksz said: “Mr [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. Because he made this possible. He created this situation. He is the main responsible person.”“I can only say that rebels did not shoot down the Boeing,” he told Russia's Interfax news agency. Of the passengers who died, 196 were Dutch and 38 Australian. Any trial is likely to be in the Netherlands where the majority of the victims came from.
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