Lawyer denies a 2022 Dutch ruling that Russia provided the missile system that shot down the plane. Read more at straitstimes.com.
THE HAGUE - A lawyer for Russia on Wednesday dismissed Ukraine’s account of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in World Court hearings earlier this week as “fiction”.
Last November, a Dutch court found that Russia had “overall control” over the separatist forces and had supplied the BUK missile system which was used by militias to shoot down the plane. “This did not happen, no BUK Telar came from Russia,” he told the court on the final day of hearings. In its final submissions on Monday, Ukraine asked the ICJ to find Moscow guilty of breaching its treaty obligations and order it to pay reparations.
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