Russia rejects ‘biased’ UN ruling on 2014 downing of Malaysian airliner
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Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
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MOSCOW - The Kremlin on May 13 rejected as biased a ruling by the UN aviation council
“Our position is well known. You know that Russia was not a country that took part in the investigation of this incident, so we do not accept any biased conclusions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.
The victims included 196 Dutch citizens and 38 Australian citizens or residents.
In November 2022, Dutch judges convicted two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the attack. Moscow called the ruling “scandalous” and said it would not extradite its citizens. REUTERS
