Russia has announced that it is ending what it calls “trilateral consultations with Australia and the Netherlands on issues linked with the MH17 catastrophe over Eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014”. The Foreign Ministry’s statement accuses the Netherlands of “hostile actions” in its lodging of an inter-state application against Russia with the European Court of Human Rights. For the totally uninitiated, the move might well seem unfriendly, since Russia nowhere mentions that it was a Russian BUK missile, transported to Donbas from a military unit in Russia, that downed the Malaysian airliner, killing 298 passengers and crew, including 80 children.
Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
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Halya Coynash: Seeking justice for MH17 victims
Magistrates wait, on March 9, 2020 in Schiphol, before the opening of the trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, even though the suspects are still at large.
