A break has been announced in the MH17 trial until Sept. 28.
Presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis announced this during a Aug. 31 hearing on the case.
Earlier, representatives of the relatives of those killed in the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight МН17 in the sky over Donbas in 2014, as well as defense lawyers of one of the accused in the case, Oleg Pulatov, spoke in court. The defense team said that it was impossible to organize a meeting in person with their client in the territory of Russia due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
As before, the trial was held in absentia of all accused persons: three Russian citizens and one Ukrainian – Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Leonid Kharchenko.
