On July 17, 2014 – in the skies over the Ukrainian Torez – the illegal armed groups controlled by the Kremlin shot down a passenger Boeing flight MH17 with a Russian Buk missile system. On the seventh anniversary of the tragedy, Ukraine, Austria, Belgium, Malaysia and the Netherlands made a statement demanding to finally identify those responsible for the deaths

Almaz-Antey claims that the missile that downed the civilian plane was fired from Ukraine-controlled territory As the court continues to look into the case of MH17 disaster in Donbas, the jury will hear the conclusions of Russian defense concern Almaz-Antey. DW reported that on June 9. The Russian company’s experts claim that the missile that downed the civilian aircraft was

As many as 298 people died when the Boeing 777 was shot down on July 17, 2014. Nearly seven years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, the trial in a Dutch court of three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of involvement in the downing moved Monday to the crucial merits phase, when evidence will be

A month ago the Dutch current affairs television program Nieuwsuur presented an episode titled “A reconstruction of the MH17 disaster: tapes of thousands of overheard conversations” in which they presented fragments of several earlier unreleased intercepted phone conversations between defendants in the MH17 case. The intercepts prove that the Russian hybrid forces indeed shot down the passenger flight because they mistook it for a Ukrainian

The last court hearing in the MH17 trial in 2020 has ended at the Schiphol Judicial Complex in the Netherlands. The hearing on the merits against the four defendants will start on February 1, 2021, an Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague reports. Today, the Court announced its decision on requests from the defence of one of the four suspects, Oleg

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – A suspect charged with involvement in shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 denied involvement in the attack in video interviews played Tuesday in a Dutch courtroom. The recorded comments by Oleg Putalov marked the first time the voice of one of the four suspects charged in the downing of the

Oleg Pulatov, one of the first four men to be on trial for suspected involvement in the downing of flight MH17, claims that he had no knowledge whatsoever about the Malaysia Airlines flight being shot down over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014. He is willing to make a statement about the disaster, he said in a personal conversation with

The seventh court hearing in the MH17 trial began with the speeches of Dutch lawyers representing one of the four suspects, lieutenant colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Oleg Pulatov. As an Ukrinform own correspondent in The Hague reports, the first speaker was lawyer Boudewijn van Eijck from the Sjöcrona Van