On the tenth anniversary of the Malaysian Boeing 777 flight MH-17, shot down Russian militants in the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014, the European Union again called on Moscow to admit its responsibility.
An official letter was published by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on behalf of all EU members.
He recalled that in November 2022, the Hague Tribunal in the Netherlands found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment Russian citizens Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky, as well as one Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko.
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According to the results of the investigation, the Buk air defense system used to shoot down flight MH17 undoubtedly belonged to Russian soldiers who invaded the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
According to Borrell, no Russian disinformation operation can distract from these basic facts established by the court.
— The European Union once again calls on the Russian Federation to acknowledge its responsibility for this tragedy and fully cooperate in the administration of justice, — emphasized Borrell.
MH17 disaster — what is known
July 17, 2014, during the period of active hostilities in the Donbass, a Boeing 777 airliner was shot down, which was making a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur (MH17).
All 298 passengers and crew on board were killed.
During the international criminal investigation, it was established that the plane was shot down by Russian militants led by Igor Girkin.
After the disaster, he himself wrote on his social networks that the terrorists simply mistook him for a Ukrainian An-26, but then deleted this publication.
The crash of MH17 became the largest air accident in Ukraine in terms of casualties, led to a series of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation and became a turning point in relations between the Kremlin and the West.
Nevertheless, Russia has officially denied its guilt and involvement in the tragedy all these years.
