As tensions rise over Russia’s invasion eight years later, a Dutch court will announce its decision on Thursday, November 17, in the case of four men accused of shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
The suspects, Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko, who are all Russians, will not be present in court because they have declined to participate in the 2.5-year trial.
The Flight MH17 Incident
When a Boeing 777 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was struck over territory controlled by separatists in eastern Ukraine by what investigators believe to be a missile supplied by Moscow, all 298 passengers and crew members perished.
