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the national public Prosecutor’s office indicted the four defendants in the case about the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 in Ukraine. It is reported TASS with reference to the lawyer of one of accused Elena Mr Kutyin.
She said that the suspects summoned to the Prosecutor’s office for investigation. Kutina said that accused Oleg Pulatova will protect the international group of protection of two Dutch lawyers and one Russian.
“in the implementation of protection we will treat this matter with the deepest respect for the feelings of the families of the victims, and taking into account the basic principle of criminal proceedings, which is the presumption of innocence,” the lawyer said, expressing hope that an objective and independent consideration of the case.
Passenger liner company “Malaysian airlines” flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur flight MH17, crashed under Donetsk on July 17, 2014. Killed 298 people from ten countries. Kiev did not close the sky of Donbass for passenger flights, in spite of active hostilities. After the crash, the Ukrainian authorities have accused militias, but they said that they had no weapons capable of shooting down a plane at such height.
To investigate the causes and circumstances of the crash have formed a Joint investigation team. Its membership includes representatives of Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. The Russian side has repeatedly expressed distrust of the results of SSG, as the international investigators are not wanted to consider the conclusions of the Russian experts in the course of the proceedings.
In June 2019 investigators announced the names of four suspects. Among them – the Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko.
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