A forensic investigator in a Dutch court interrogated representatives of the Almaz-Antey concern in the case of the crash of flight MH17 over Donbas in 2014, TASS reports, citing the hearing.
According to presiding judge Hedrik Steinhuis, the investigator, as part of an additional investigation, also interviewed Western experts: specialists from the Netherlands Aerospace Center and the Belgian Royal Military Academy.
“The issues discussed include the damage to the aircraft, what weapons could have caused this damage and how the Buk missile works,” the agency quoted the judge as saying.
In October 2020, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow would refuse further consultations in the format of a trilateral group with Australia and the Netherlands on the Malaysian Boeing MH17 case. This decision was taken after a series of unfriendly actions by the Netherlands. In particular, we are talking about an interstate complaint against Russia, which the Netherlands filed in July with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. There were 298 people on board, all of whom died. Investigators following the results of the investigation named the names of the accused in the case: Russians Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Oleg Pulatov, Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. It is assumed that they all have to do with the movement of the Buk complex, from which the liner was probably shot down.
