One of the first western reports from the MH17 Joint Investigative Team’s press conference on 19 June called the four suspects “Russian-backed separatists”, and suggested that Moscow could be breathing a sigh of relief. While the Kremlin could well enjoy such misleading descriptions for the three Russian suspects, it is hard to see grounds for relief.
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Chief Prosecutor with the National Prosecutor's Office of the Netherlands Fred Westerbeke, gestures next to the pictures of former FSB colonel Igor Girkin (from top to bottom), Sergei Dubinsky employed by Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, Oleg Pulatov former soldier of the Spetznaz GRU and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, on June 19, 2019 in Nieuwegein during a press conference of the JIT on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014.
