Court in Netherlands confirmed that Boeing MH17 was shot down from territory controlled by Russian Federation
The District Court in The Hague established that the passenger plane MH17 was shot down from the territory of the "LDPR", which was subordinate to Russia.
This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to Suspilne.
Thus, the court accepted the prosecution's version that it was the Russian Federation that controlled the so-called "DNR". In addition, the judges determined on the basis of confirmed evidence that the plane MH17 was shot down by the Buk air defense system from the temporarily occupied Pervomaisk.
As reported, the passenger Boeing-777 of "Malaysia Airlines", which was performing flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board the liner, all of them died.
The international investigative team concluded that the plane was shot down from the Buk anti-aircraft missile complex, which belongs to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, stationed in Kursk.
On June 19, 2019, the investigative team named four suspects believed to be involved in the transportation and combat use of the Buk air defense system. This is a former FSB officer, former "Minister of Defense" of the so-called "DPR" Igor Girkin (Strelkov), General, and at the time of the downing of the plane, a colonel of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, head of the "GRU" of the DPR Serhiy Dubinsky, lieutenant colonel Oleg Pulatov (all citizens Russian Federation), citizen of Ukraine Leonid Kharchenko, who fought on the side of the so-called "DPR".
