Flight MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over Ukraine in 2014. Read more at straitstimes.com.
for their role in shooting down the plane, and handed them life sentences.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam and was bound for Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Fighting was raging at the time between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces, the precursor of this year’s conflict.The Dutch ruling also found that Russia had “overall control” over the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine from mid-May 2014.
The International Court of Justice, as the World Court is formally known, has set four days of hearings on June 6, 8, 12 and 14 to hear both sides in the case.The other case, filed just after the 2022 Russian invasion, centres on Moscow’s claim they invaded Ukraine to prevent genocide. It generally takes several years for a case at the ICJ to reach the stage of hearings on the merits of the case. REUTERS
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