"The court claims that on the night of July 16-17, the DPR fighters brought the Buk air defense system from Russia. The need for such air defense has existed for quite a long time. After heavy fighting on July 16, 2014, during which the DPR suffered heavy losses and could not defend themselves from an air attack, this system was in great demand," Steenhuis said.
On the morning of July 17, the air defense system was brought to the site of the future launch from Donetsk, the judge said.
"After it became clear that this crash occurred due to the use of the Buk air defense system, it was quickly taken away back to Russia, in the hopes that an international scandal could be prevented in this way," Steenhuis said.
The MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed near the city of Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers and crew members were killed.
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A Dutch court has sentenced three Russia-linked men and acquitted one for their alleged roles in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
ReplyDeleteFormer Russian intelligence agents Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, a separatist leader, were found guilty of murder and intentionally causing an aircraft to crash at The Hague District Court on Thursday.
El juez neerlandés Hendrik Steenhuis abrió la audiencia este jueves para dictaminar el veredicto acerca del derribo del vuelo MH17 de Malaysia Airlines que tuvo lugar en 2014 en el este de Ucrania.
ReplyDeleteLos ciudadanos rusos Ígor Guírkin y Serguéi Dubínski y el ciudadano ucraniano Leonid Jarchénko han sido declarados culpables de la destrucción de la aeronave y de la muerte de las 298 personas, entre tripulación y pasajeros, que viajaban en el avión.
Por otra parte, el juez declaró inocente al ciudadano ruso Oleg Pulátov, fallecido en 2021, y rechazó la petición de la Fiscalía de encarcelarlo.
El tribunal consideró probada la culpabilidad de Guirkin, a la vez que calificó a Jarchenko y Dubinski como cómplices en el lanzamiento del misil que derribó al avión. En el momento de la tragedia, Guirkin ocupaba el cargo del Ministro de Defensa de la República Popular de Donetsk, mientras que Jarchenko y Dubinski ocupaban cargos militares inferiores.
El tribunal de La Haya condenó a los tres a cadena perpetua. Además, estimó el importe total de la indemnización a los familiares de las víctimas en más de 16 millones de euros.
A Dutch court ruled that full compensation should be paid out to the families of the passengers killed when a Malaysian Airlines Boeing-777 was shot down by a Buk missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, judge Hendrik Steenhuis said on Thursday, delivering the court’s verdict in the criminal case on the crash of flight MH17.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the judge, the amount of compensation requested was in line with Ukrainian legislation and the court found it to be justified.
The full amount of damages awarded by the court surpasses €16 mln.