Four charged with MH17 plane crash

Three Russians and a Ukrainian have been charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, that killed all 298 passengers and crew on board


SUSPECTS
1 2 3 4
Igor Girkin (1), former colonel of Russia’s FSB spy service; Sergey Dubinksy (2), employed
by Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency; Oleg Pulatov (3), former soldier with GRU’s special forces spetsnaz unit; Leonid Kharchenko (4), Ukrainian commander of combat unit in Donetsk


July 17, 2014, 10:15GMT: MH17 takes off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, bound for Kuala Lumpur

14:20GMT: Last contact. Plane crashes in rebel-held eastern Ukraine

NETHERLANDS
GERMANY
POLAND
UKRAINE
RUSSIA
Kursk
Black Sea

300km 200 miles


Buk SA-11 missile system


Area of rebel activity on crash date
DONETSK REGION
Lysychansk
LUHANSK REGION
UKRAINE
Luhansk
Last recorded position of MH17
Hrabove: Main debris site
Donetsk
Snizhne
Missile launch site
RUSSIA
20km 12 miles


Dutch-led investigators concluded in May 2018 that plane was hit by Buk missile system belonging to 53rd Anti Aircraft Missile brigade, based in Russian city of Kursk


Sources: Associated Press, Reuters, BBC 
Pictures: Getty Images 
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