Relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 gathered at a Dutch courtroom Thursday before the verdicts in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the aviation disaster.
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands - Relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines flightwas shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 gathered at a Dutch courtroom Thursday before the verdicts in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the aviation disaster.
“The truth on the table - that is the most important thing,” said Anton Kotte, who lost his son, daughter-in-law and his 6-year-old grandson whenRobbert van Heijningen, who lost his brother, sister-in-law and nephew, called the downing “an act of barbarism” that he could never put behind him, regardless of the verdict.None of the suspects appeared for the trial that began in March 2020 and if they are convicted, it's unlikely they will serve any sentence anytime soon.
Hundreds of family members of people killed traveled to the court to hear the verdict, bringing them back to the airport their loved ones left on the fateful dayDutch prosecutors say the missile launcher came from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces based in the Russian city of Kursk and was driven back there afterThe suspects aren't accused of firing the missile but of working together to get it to the field where it was fired.
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