Oleg Pulatov, accused in the case of the death of a Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk in 2014, testified in court about his ties with Russia. RIA Novosti reports.
Pulatov said that at the time of the disaster he had not served in the Russian army. He stressed that he was fired from the Russian armed forces back in 2008. The former militia commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) noted that none of the units under his command were part of the Russian army.
The defendant in the case also added that he did not keep in touch with any of the representatives of the Russian authorities or with anyone else from Russia.
Earlier on November 3, a court in the Netherlands again requested satellite data from the United States from the crash site of a Malaysian Boeing in Ukraine in 2014. “This request is currently being processed. The investigating judge answered a number of US questions. So far, there has been no response to our request, ”said Judge Hendrik Steenhuis.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. There were 298 people on board, all of whom died. The international investigation team, following the investigation, named the names of the defendants in the case of the Boeing crash. These are Russians Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Oleg Pulatov, Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. All of them, according to the investigation, are related to the movement of the Buk complex, from which, presumably, the liner was shot down.
