Why didn’t the MH17 report authors directly blame Russia? This is a question many people asked after the document was released. Ukrainian political expert Bohdan Yaremenko explained it simply: such an accusation goes against the rules of law. He explained: you cannot charge “murder of almost 300 people” a whole country.
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Local villagers lay flowers near pictures of the passengers of MH17 flight at a makeshift memorial in Petropavlivka village, Donetsk region, on the second anniversary of the tragedy on July 17, 2016.
Dozens of local villagers gathered on July 17 in separatist eastern Ukraine at the crash site of the MH17 flight two years after the jet was hit by a missile killing 298 people. Some 60 local people carried flowers and lit the candles on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur fell to the ground. / AFP PHOTO / Aleksey Filippov
