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The trial of the crash of the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 over the Donbass began on Monday, March 9, in the Netherlands, according to RIA Novosti. The participants in the trial gathered in the Schiphol court complex, hearings are held under special protection.
The plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed near Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board died. Russian experts offered their assistance, but were removed from the investigation. Meanwhile, Moscow is ready to recognize the results of the investigation only if the country takes a full part in it.
Four people are suspected of involvement in the Boeing crash. Among them are three Russian citizens - Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Sergey Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. None of them are taking part in the trial.
According to the investigators, the cause of the crash was a missile launched from the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which allegedly belonged to the Russian anti-aircraft missile brigade. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation previously said that Moscow had sent to the Netherlands the information from Russian radars and documentation confirming that the missile that hit the airliner belonged to Ukraine. Nevertheless, the investigation ignored this information.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the accusations of the joint investigative group of Russia’s involvement in the plane crash are unfounded and regrettable. The department called the investigation one-sided and biased.
Russkiy Mir
