Reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at Gilse Reijen Air Base, NetherlandsPARIS, Mar 25, by Anastasia Ivanova. The prosecutor's office and the defense in the case of the crash of the Boeing (flight MH17) in Ukraine in 2014 agree that it was technically possible to shoot down the plane with a missile from the Buk air defense system from the Ukrainian military-controlled village of Zaroshchenske, said the defendant's lawyer Sabine ten Dusshate.Sabine ten Dusshate and Boundewijn van Eyck, defense lawyers Sabine ten Dusshate and Boundewijn van Eyck, speak at the hearings at the Schiphol court complex in the Netherlands in March. />The Dutch found «valuable witnesses in the Boeing case: the cat has already been killed» The settlement of Zaroshchenskoye is located within a radius of 36 km from the crash site of flight MH17. The prosecutor's office and the defense agree on one point: it was technically possible to shoot down flight MH17 with a Buk missile from this locality,» ten Dusshate said at a meeting on Friday, which is broadcast on the website of the court. At the same time, according to the lawyer, later the prosecutors stated that, contrary to the statement of the Russian authorities, satellite images did not show that Ukrainian troops were moving towards this settlement.In addition, the Dutch prosecutor's office stated that this place was outside the zone from which a missile could be launched, according to the calculations of Belgian and Dutch experts. The Russian defense concern Almaz-Antey conducted three field experiments simulating the situation with the defeat of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass.The experiments confirmed that the plane could only be hit by a 9M38 missile from the side of the Zaroshchenskoe settlement, which was controlled by the Ukrainian military, which were armed with the Buk air defense system «, inherited by Kiev after the collapse of the USSR. G the Dutch experts declined an invitation to attend one of the experiments.MH17 case is rife with double standards, Lavrov saidThe MH17 crash trial began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020. Four persons involved in the case are 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, A 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. Kyiv 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 ambassador called the statements about threats to the families of the victims of MH17 sucked out of the finger handed over to the Netherlands not only Russian radar data, but also documentation showing that the Buk air defense missile system 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 he 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. jpg» />In the Netherlands, a new prosecutor was involved in the case of the crash of flight MH17The prosecution line 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, Sergei Lavrov, it is full of double standards.
