The question of the place and time

The case of the death of the Malaysian Boeing-777 in the east of Ukraine will be considered by a specially created international tribunal or a court in one of the countries included in the investigative group. This was reported by the Dutch online publication Nu.nl.

The countries participating in the group, which includes the Netherlands, Australia, Malaysia, Ukraine and Belgium, will decide on the next week how the process will take place.

As the publication notes, even after the decision is made, the court will not begin in the near future, since the investigation of the crash is still ongoing.

The MN-17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur Boeing 777 crashed on July 17, 2014 near Donetsk. As a result, all 283 passengers (mainly citizens of the Netherlands) and 15 crew members died.

In September last year, investigators of the International Investigative Group submitted a second report on the technical reasons for the Boeing crash. The report states that the missile that had shot down the Malaysian liner was released from the Buk complex, which was six kilometers from the city of Snezhnoye. In addition, investigators found that the Buk complex was delivered to Ukraine from Russia. After the liner was shot down, the car was returned to Russia.

At a press conference in the Netherlands, only the main conclusions of the international investigative group were presented. The report is not published in full. The document will be attached to the corresponding criminal case.

The chief prosecutor of the Netherlands Fred Westerbeke said that more than 100 people can be involved in the death of the Boeing-777. The term of the criminal investigation has been extended until 2018. At the same time, the prosecutor noted that it has not yet been established on whose order the crew of Buk acted. Westerbeke emphasized that the group does not conclude about the guilt of specific people or Russia as a state.

In early June, the investment group B EllingCat published the final evidence that the Buk air defense system 332, which shot down the liner, was assigned to the Russian 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade , deployed near Kursk (military unit 32406). According to Bellingcat, Buk was delivered to the Ukrainian border on June 23-25, 2014. Two soldiers, sergeant and lieutenant, say the authors of the report, crossed the border of Ukraine with him. The research group also determined the circle of senior officers who could give an order and responsible for the operation of representatives of the military command.