McGee Return TD Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Three Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with bringing a missile into the area in eastern Ukraine and with murdering 298 passengers and crew. Passenger flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine. A court case will begin in the Netherlands on 9 March 2020. International arrest warrants have been issued for the four men. The Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT) named the men as Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov from Russia, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 9 minutes ago, McGee Return TD said: Three Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with bringing a missile into the area in eastern Ukraine and with murdering 298 passengers and crew. Passenger flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine. A court case will begin in the Netherlands on 9 March 2020. International arrest warrants have been issued for the four men. The Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT) named the men as Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov from Russia, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. And where did they get the missile from? Trump's buddy Putin furnish it for them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Quote MOSCOW — International prosecutors on Wednesday said that four men, including three with close ties to the Russian military and intelligence, would face murder charges in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine five years ago, killing 298 people. Fred Westerbeke, the chief prosecutor of the Netherlands, said that the trial would begin in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020. The accused are unlikely to be present, however, since three are in Russia and the fourth is believed to be in the breakaway region in Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/world/europe/mh17-ukraine-russia-suspects.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage Same guys who hacked our 2016 election? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 (edited) ADVERTISEMENT Opinion Was the Downing of Flight MH17 State-Sponsored Murder? International investigators tied three Russians and a pro-Russian Ukrainian to the crime. They — and their sponsor — must be called to account. By The Editorial Board The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. June 19, 2019 91 The site of a Malaysia Airlines plane crash in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on July 17, 2014.CreditMaxim Zmeyev/Reuters Image The site of a Malaysia Airlines plane crash in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on July 17, 2014.CreditCreditMaxim Zmeyev/Reuters In Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin, lying — willfully, methodically, shamelessly — is the default response to any accusations of wrongdoing. Russia did not meddle in American elections. Accusations of systematic Olympic doping are malicious foreign inventions. The Novichok nerve agent killers in Salisbury, England, were there only to admire the cathedral’s spire. Russia has nothingto do with the secessionists in eastern Ukraine. Shaping reality to fit political maneuvering has a long tradition in the Kremlin, and unfortunately the practice is gaining popularity in the White House and among would-be authoritarians the world round. That makes it all the more important that institutions dedicated to the rule of law, to reliance on fact and to the primacy of truth should resolutely push back. And that’s why the murder charges announced by international prosecutors on Wednesday against three Russians and a Ukrainian over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 five years ago, with the loss of 298 lives, are very important even if Russia refuses to surrender the suspects or acknowledge their culpability, as it will. Even if there are no defendants in the dock, Moscow’s lies will be. Russia’s involvement has long been clear. A day after MH17 was shot down over Ukraine’s warring eastern provinces on July 17, 2014, the United States government concluded from available evidence that the plane had been brought down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile launched from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine. American officials said at the time that they believed the missile battery had most likely been provided by Russia to pro-Russian separatists. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/opinion/mh17-ukraine-russia-suspects.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Edited June 20, 2019 by Tiberius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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