The Hague court received 301 claims for compensation from the families of the victims of the MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine. This was announced by the presiding judge Hendrik Steenhays, RIA Novosti reports.
“To date, 301 claims for compensation have come to court,” the judge said, without naming the defendant in these claims.
Earlier it was assumed that the claims of the relatives of the victims would begin to be considered on November 9.
The trial of the MH17 crash began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020. The investigation believes that former DPR Defense Minister Igor Girkin (Strelkov) and three of his subordinates – Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko were involved in the plane crash. They are accused of delivering a Buk air defense missile system from Russia to Ukraine, from which the liner was shot down. Pulatov is represented by an international group of two Dutch and one Russian lawyers. The rest of the suspects are being tried in absentia.
A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17, 2014 in territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). There were 298 people on board, they died. Investigating the disaster, the Joint Investigation Team includes representatives from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine.
