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Court suspends MH17 case until April 15 5 min read
The Dutch court in the case of the downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 announced decisions on the next requests of the defense of accused Russian Oleg Pulatov and announced that the regular hearing would start on April 15. The court suspends examination in court until April 15, 2021, 10:00. It also suspends investigation in the cases of accused [Igor] Girkin, [Serhiy] Dubinsky and [Leonid] Kharchenko until the same date, presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis said.
The judge also read out the decisions made on the previously announced motions of the defense of Pulatov, the only one of the four accused to be represented by lawyers.
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Bellingcat: New evidence against Russian soldiers on MH17
Dutch prosecutors are to look at fresh evidence on the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine found by citizen journalist platform Bellingcat. Eliot Higgins explains why Bellingcat believes Russian soldiers were involved.
Debris of the downed plane in eastern Ukraine
DW: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over war-torn eastern Ukraine on 17 July, 2014, by a Buk surface-to-air missile, air crash investigators said last October. How did your investigative platform Bellingcat come to the conclusion that 20 soldiers from Russia s 53rd anti-aircraft brigade were involved in shooting down the plane? Eliot Higgins: We began by first identifying the missile launcher seen in Ukraine on July 17, 2014, which we believe shot down flight MH17 in a convoy that was filmed by various Russian citizens between June 23 and June 25, 2014. And that missile launcher was in that convoy. We were able to identify where the convoy came from: t
a tracked vehicle to be deployed across an international border. well, today the dutch-led international investigative team announced charges, criminal charges, against four suspects in these 298 murders. the suspects announced today, charged today, include a colonel from the fsb, the russian spy service, and two officers from the gru, the same military intelligence agency that ran the russian attack on our 2016 election. same russian military allege that s alleged to have carried out the nerve agent poisoning in salisbury in the uk. russia, of course, still denies having anything to do with the shoot-down of mh-17. but in addition to these charges announced today, the international prosecutors also named and implicated a senior aide to putin himself for having been involved at the highest level in organizing the transfer