Presenting a report on the circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight MH17 crash in the Netherlands. Archive photoPARIS, Mar 21, Anastasia Ivanova.Russian defense concern Almaz-Antey's experiments in the MH17 crash case are based on data collected over more than 40 years and cannot be challenged by experts from countries that did not produce Buk missiles, attorney Boudewijn van Eyck said on Monday. in the specially guarded judicial complex Schiphol, hearings on the case of the Malaysian Boeing crash continued — the defense of the accused Russian Oleg Pulatov, represented by the Dutch lawyers Sabine ten Dusshate and Boudewijn van Eyck, spoke at the meetings. Almaz-Antey experts explained during the interview of the investigating judge, that the testing of these missiles (the Buk air defense system) is a long process that has been going on since the 1980s … This means that Almaz-Antey built its experiment on the basis of data obtained long before the two other research institutions involved in this case,» the lawyer said at the hearing, which is broadcast on the website of the court. Other institutions are Aerospace The Dutch National Research Center and the Belgian Royal Military Academy conducted an experiment to detonate a Buk SAM warhead in Ukraine in 2016.Malaysia will take part in the lawsuit against Russia in the MH17 case «For this reason, Almaz-Antey indicated that all the data collected by these experts had been known to the concern since the 1980s. It becomes clear that all the information and production data of Almaz-Antey «are based on work that has been carried out for more than 40 years. And it is simply impossible to ignore or challenge experts from countries that did not produce Buk missiles,» Van Eyck noted. Almaz-Antey conducted field experiments three times simulating the situation with the defeat of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass.Experiments confirmed that the plane could only be hit by a 9M38 missile from the direction of the village of Zaroshchenskoe, which was controlled by the Ukrainian military, which was armed with the Buk air defense system, inherited by Kiev after the collapse of the USSR.Dutch experts refused an invitation to attend one from experiments.The MH17 crash trial began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020. Four figures are involved in the case NTA — Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. Pulatov is represented in court by an international group of lawyers, while the rest of the suspects are being tried in absentia. Consideration of the case on the merits began on June 8, 2021. In December 2021, the Dutch prosecutor's office issued an indictment, demanding that all four defendants be sentenced to life imprisonment «for the destruction of an aircraft as part of an organized group, which led to the death of 298 people, and the murder of passengers, on board».
Not a single witness heard at MH17 trial, lawyer saysMalaysian 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. Kyiv immediately blamed the militias for the crash, but they said that they did not have the means to shoot down the plane at such a height. 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 the rocket was launched. As Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Nikolai Vinnichenko told RIA Novosti, the Russian side handed over to the Netherlands not only data from Russian radars, but also documentation indicating that the Buk missile that hit Boeing belonged to Ukraine, and it was launched from Kiev-controlled territory, 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. The investigation was conducted by a joint investigation team led by the Dutch Attorney General without the participation of Russia. 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 RF 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. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that accusations of Russia's involvement in the Boeing crash were unfounded and regrettable, and the investigation was biased and one-sided. According to the head of the department, Sergey Lavrov, it is full of double standards.
