New Delhi: The Dutch court on Thursday cleared one suspect and convicted three others in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and confirmed that the armed invasion in 2014 was controlled by the Kremlin, and thus responsible for the shoot-down, reported Reuters. “From half May 2014 Russia had so-called overall control over the People’s Republic of Donetsk,” presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis said referring to the region where the passenger flight was a showdown on July 17, 2014.
The court had earlier stated that the plane was shot down by a Russian-made missile.
The court found that a Russian-made rocket provided by Russia and fired by an armed group under Russian control brought down flight MH17.
The men - two Russians and one Ukrainian - were found guilty in absentia and sentenced to life in prison. A third Russian was cleared.
The rocket attack was one of the most notorious war crimes in Ukraine claims of before allegations of atrocities there became an almost daily reality.
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A large number of the victims' family members accept in the event that the world had responded in an unexpected way, and taken a harder position against Russia quite a while back, the intrusion of Ukraine and the geopolitical instability that has followed could have been avoided.
The appointed authorities decided that it was an intentional activity to bring down a plane, despite the fact that the three viewed as liable had expected to destroy a military, not a regular citizen airplane.
Malaysia Airlines Boeing MH17 passenger plane was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014. The flight path was cleared by Eurocontrol and the International Aviation Organisation. According to Ukrainian time, the plane crashed at 13.20 minutes. All 298 people on the plane were killed. Most of them were from the Netherlands.