On Thursday, The Hague District Court in the Netherlands convicted three men for downing the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 passengers.
Former Russian intelligence agents Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian separatist leader Leonid Kharchenko, were found guilty of murder and intentionally crashing the aircraft.
The three men were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, but are unlikely to serve their sentences as they remain at large. A fourth suspect, Russian national Oleg Pulatov was acquitted.
On July 2014, a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shoot down over the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
In March 2020, prosecutors presented evidence that the MH17 was brought down by a Russian-made Buk missile.
