The court plans to make a final decision at the end of next year.
Punishment for 298 killed on flight MH17. The prosecution demands to sentence four defendants in the 2014 plane crash case in the skies over Donbass to life imprisonment.
This was announced by a representative of the Dutch prosecutor's office during the announcement of the indictment in the MH17 case on December 22.
We are talking about three citizens of Russia – Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Igor Girkin and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. None of them are present at the hearing, they are being tried in absentia .
The prosecutor's office also asked the court to issue a warrant for their arrest and named them specifically guilty of the destruction of the plane and the murder of 298 people, as well as the prosecution referred to the stories of the relatives of the victims, which, according to the prosecutor's office, aggravates the crime.
The court also confirmed that it was the plane was shot down by a Buk missile launcher brought from Russia and no other weapon. After the indictment has been announced, the hearings will resume in March, when the defense will be able to lay out its arguments. The final decision in the case of MH17 the court plans to make at the end of next year .
As a reminder, the passenger Boeing of Malaysian Airlines was shot down on July 17 2014 over the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region. 298 people died . The international investigation team has no doubts that the airliner was shot down by the Russians from a Russian Buk missile launcher brought in from Russia.
