A Dutch court is passing judgment tonight on three Russians and a Ukrainian charged over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine and the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew on board. 9News
The verdict comes more than eight years after the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was blown out of the sky on July 17, 2014, amid a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces, killing 38 Australians and scattering wreckage and bodies over farmland and fields of sunflowers.
The Hague District Court, sitting at a high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport, is passing judgment against a backdrop of global geopolitical upheaval caused by Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine in February and the nearly nine-month war it triggered. The suspects aren't accused of firing the missile but of working together to get it to the field where it was fired. They are accused of bringing down the plane and the murder of all those on board.
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