The Hague District Court is to pass a verdict in the case of the MH17 flight, which crashed on July 17, 2014, on Thursday, November 17.
The court has already ruled that the Malaisia was in fact shot down with a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile. The missile was launched from the city of Pervomaiske, which at the time was occupied (controlled by the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, backed by Russia).
The Hague Court also stressed that the following men were guilty of the MH17 crash: Sergey Dubinskiy, Oleg Pulatov, Leonid Kharchenko, and Igor "Strelkov" Girkin.
On July 17–18, 2014, the Buk air defense system was deployed in the previously mentioned Pervomaiske. And the elements extracted from the bodies and from the fragments of the plane and analyzed by specialists form very strong evidence that the flight was indeed shot down by a Buk missile," the judge emphasized.
The court also noted that intercepted conversations of those whom the court found immediately guilty in the crash of the Boeing 777 were also strong enough evidence.
In addition, the court stated that the missile launch was intended and that the operators thought they were firing at a military aircraft. However, it appeared to be a Boeing 777.
Context. Information about the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 became known in the afternoon of July 17, 2014. Literally an hour before that, Strelkov "Girkin" bragged on social media that illegal paramilitaries in Donbas had shot down a plane of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this message quickly disappeared from the social media accounts of Strelkov "Girkin". Immediately after that, rumors began to spread in the media that a passenger plane had crashed in Donbas.
The plane was carrying 298 nationals of different countries.
It became known later that the plane was hit by a Russian Buk surface-to-air missile. However, Russia denied these accusations despite undeniable evidence, including satellite images of the Buk. Since then, an investigation of the tragedy has been carried out.
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