Dutch court convicts three men, two former Russian intelligence agents, and a Ukrainian separatist leader
Moscow on Thursday denounced as “political” the decision of a Dutch court that convicted three men, two former Russian intelligence agents and a Ukrainian separatist leader, of downing of flight MH17 of Malaysia Airlines over Ukraine in 2014.
“The course and outcome of the court proceedings show that (the decision) is based on a political order,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that “throughout the trial the court was under unprecedented pressure from Dutch politicians, prosecutors and media to impose a politically motivated outcome’.
“The trial in the Netherlands is likely to take place one of the most scandalous in the history of legal proceedings,” he added.
A court in The Hague ruled today that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made missile fired from a farm in eastern Ukraine, adding that Russia had broadly the control of the separatist forces in the area when the aircraft was shot down.
The convicts, two Russian former intelligence officers and a Ukrainian separatist leader, were found guilty of murder. They were given life sentences. They remain fugitives and are believed to be in Russia, which will not extradite them.
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