 Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin ( Youtube) Who is on trial? Russians Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, were all commanders in the Donetsk People's Republic at the time and the Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT) charged them with the murders. The trial is being held under Dutch law because Russia used its Security Council veto to block an independent international tribunal to handle the case. Mr Girkin, also known as Strelkov, is a former colonel in Russia's Federal Security Service and was given the minister of defence title in the rebel-held eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk Sergei Dubinsky, known as Khmury, was employed by Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU), was a deputy of Mr Girkin and was in regular contact with Russia. Oleg Yuldashevich Pulatov ( bellingcat.com) Oleg Pulatov, known as Giurza, was a soldier of GRU special forces and deputy head of the intelligence service in Donetsk. Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian national with military background led a combat unit as a commander in Eastern Ukraine. However, none of the four suspects will be there as they have not been arrested and are){kind=link}
Three Russians and a Ukrainian were charged in the Netherlands with murder for their alleged involvement in shooting down the Boeing 777 and on Thursday they will be in court again
A Dutch court will today hand down verdicts in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian rebel for their alleged roles in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine in 2014.
In the tragedy on July 17, 2014, 298 people, including 10 Britons, were killed when a missile shot down the plane heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
The plane was flying over eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists fighting a war of secession against the government in Kyiv when it was hit.
Three Russians and a Ukrainian were charged in the Netherlands with murder for their alleged involvement in shooting down the Boeing 777 and on Thursday they will be in court again as the panel of Dutch judges delivers its verdicts.