In the Netherlands, a lawsuit began in the case of the crash in July 2014 in eastern Ukraine of a Malaysian Airlines passenger Boeing that took flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur; hearings are being held in a specially guarded court complex Schiphol.
The meeting began at 10.00 local time (12.00 Moscow time). More than 400 journalists from different countries accredited to the event.
There are four persons involved in the trial, whom the National Prosecutor’s Office of the Netherlands previously indicted – these are the Russians Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Sergey Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov and the Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. Pulatov is defended by a group of two Dutch and Russian lawyers. None of the suspects will be present at the trial.
Malaysian Boeing, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur by flight MH17, crashed on July 17, 2014 near Donetsk. Onboard were 298 people, all of them died. Kiev accused the militias of the disaster, they said they did not have the means to bring down the aircraft at such a height.