Two former Russian intelligence officers - Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy - as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, were found guilty of murdering the 289 people onboard the plane.
A Dutch court has convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of the murders of 298 people who died in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine.
Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky, Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko convicted in absentia, sentenced to life imprisonment over 2014 incident in which 298 were killed
The three men were all senior commanders in the separatist movement, the Donetsk People’s Republic, just months after Russia had annexed Crimea and the Donbas region.
Resolution brought by US, Britain, France and Germany and voted against by China and Russia is second to criticize Tehran for not cooperating in recent months