Three guilty of downing airliner over Ukraine

A Dutch court has found three men guilty of the murder of 298 people on board flight MH17, which was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile when it was flying over eastern Ukraine in 2014


1 2 3 4

1 Igor Girkin: Military leader of Donetsk People’s Republic. Convicted of deploying missile

2 Sergey Dubinksy: Found to have ordered and managed transport of Buk missile launcher

3 Leonid Kharchenko: Found to have overseen missile

4 Oleg Pulatov: Knew about missile, but was not perpetrator. Acquitted


Buk SA-11 missile system


July 17, 2014, 10:31GMT: MH17 takes off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, bound for Kuala Lumpur

NETHERLANDS
UKRAINE
RUSSIA
Kursk
300km 200 miles

13:20GMT: Last contact. Plane crashes in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, killing 298


Area of rebel activity on crash date

DONETSK REGION
Donetsk
Snizhne
Lysychansk
LUHANSK REGION 
UKRAINE
Luhansk

Last recorded position of MH17

Hrabove: Main debris site

Missile launch site

RUSSIA
20km 12 miles


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


Source: Reuters
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