Announcement of the results of the Almaz-Antey Concern's experiment to simulate the crash of a Boeing 777. Archive photoSTRASBURG, 26 Jan. Russia will make public all the documents that it handed over to the Netherlands in the case of the crash of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, so that everyone can see where the truth is, Mikhail Vinogradov, representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), said on Wednesday. The ECHR in Strasbourg on Wednesday began considering complaints of the Netherlands and Ukraine v. Russia in the case of the crash of flight MH17 in the Donbass in 2014. The first session concerns the admissibility of the joint applications of the Netherlands and Ukraine against Russia in the case of the crash of the Malaysian Boeing. «Russia will publish all documents that were transferred to the Netherlands (in the case of MH17 — Ed.), so that everyone can see what is true and where,» Vinogradov said at a meeting of the ECHR in Strasbourg. Earlier, Ukraine filed several lawsuits with the ECHR against the Russian Federation, they relate to Crimea and Donbass. Kiev has repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the affairs of Ukraine. Russia denies this and calls such accusations unacceptable, emphasizing that it is not a party to the conflict in Donbas.The Netherlands did not use Russian materials on MH17, Vinogradov said In July 2020, the Strasbourg court officially notified Russia of the complaint filed by the Netherlands against it over the crash of the Malaysian Boeing. The Russian Foreign Ministry regarded the complaint as yet another blow to Russian-Dutch relations. Subsequently, all these complaints were combined. On July 22 of the same year, Russia filed the first interstate complaint against Ukraine in the history of the country with the ECHR. In particular, in this complaint, the Russian Federation charges Kiev with the crash of flight MH17 due to the failure of the Ukrainian authorities to close the airspace, according to a press release from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. The court registered the complaint, but has not yet begun its consideration. The Malaysian Boeing, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on flight MH17, crashed on July 17, 2014 near Donetsk. There were 298 people on board, all of them died. Kiev immediately blamed the militias for the plane crash, but they said that they did not have the means that would allow them to shoot down the plane at such a height.The case of the crash of Boeing-777 in the Donetsk region in 2014 Four defendants are walking along it — Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. Pulatov is represented in court by an international group, the rest of the suspects are tried in absentia. Consideration of the case on the merits began on June 8, 2021. Ukraine refused to provide data from its radars, and the United States did not transfer satellite images to the investigation, where, as they claim, the moment of the rocket launch is visible. the party handed over to the Netherlands not only Russian radar data, but also documentation showing that the Buk air defense missile that hit Boeing belonged to Ukraine, and it was launched from territory controlled by Kiev, but the investigators ignored this information. At the same time, on the first day of the court hearing, the prosecution admitted that it had received and was studying the data of the Russian prosecutor's office.A witness in the MH17 case stated that he had never seen the Buk air defense system in the Donbass. The investigation claims that the Boeing was shot down from the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which belonged to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Armed Forces from Kursk, from the territory controlled by the militia. The line of state prosecution is based on the testimony of exclusively anonymous witnesses. The defense of the Russian defendant Pulatov, accused in the case, stated that this makes it difficult to assess the reliability of their testimony, but the Dutch prosecutor's office insists that anonymity is necessary for security reasons. is biased and one-sided. According to the head of the department, Sergei Lavrov, it is full of double standards.
