Australia, Netherlands start legal action against Russia for downing of MH17

[Rogue Valley]

Australia, Netherlands start legal action against Russia for downing of MH17

3.14.22
Australia said it has begun joint legal action with the Netherlands against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organisation over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 eight years ago. Russia was responsible under international law for the downing of the flight, and action in the United Nations aviation council was a step forward in the fight for justice for 298 victims, including 38 Australians, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a statement on Monday. The joint action under Article 84 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation is separate to a Dutch murder trial for four suspects over their individual criminal responsibility. MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014 when it was hit over rebel-held eastern Ukraine by what international investigators and prosecutors say was a Russian-made surface-to-air missile. A verdict in the murder trial, involving three Russians and a Ukrainian who remain at large, is expected later this year. None of the defendants have attended the Dutch court. Australia and the Netherlands would rely on evidence MH17 was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile system transported from Russia to an area of eastern Ukraine under the control of Russian-backed separatists, and it was accompanied by a Russian military crew, the statement said.

On 17 July 2014, Malaysian flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over a rebel-controled area of eastern Ukraine by the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Federation, killing all 298 people aboard the airliner.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Australia, Netherlands start legal action against Russia for downing of MH17

On 17 July 2014, Malaysian flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over a rebel-controled area of eastern Ukraine by the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Federation, killing all 298 people aboard the airliner.

Please don't bring this up. It could cause an escalation in the war Russia is waging on Ukraine. Putin may get pissed that you dare accuse him of such conduct because we all know nothing happens in Russia without his OK.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Please don't bring this up. It could cause an escalation in the war Russia is waging on Ukraine. Putin may get pissed that you dare accuse him of such conduct because we all know nothing happens in Russia without his OK.

I know that you have rarely ventured into this forum, but I have continued to bring this up since the day it happened.