Former prime minister Tony Abbott says the “real” perpetrator of the MH17 “atrocity” is “Vladimir Putin” amid a recent guilty verdict being laid down to two Russians and a Ukrainian separatist.
The two Russians and one Ukrainian were identified as being responsible for the deaths of 298 people, including 38 Australians. A third Russian suspect was acquitted.
“Russian missile batteries do not cross borders by accident. It only happens if the Russian leader provides that authorisation,” Mr Abbott told Sky News host Chris Kenny. Mr Abbott says Mr Putin “really does have to accept responsibility, apologise, pay reparations to the families”. The court found the men shot down the aircraft with a Russian-made surface-to-air BUK missile – launched from the separatist region of eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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