Last court hearing in MH17 case: verdict to be announced in November

In the Netherlands, in the Schiphol court complex near Amsterdam, the last court session in the MH17 case was held regarding the downed flight MH17 in July 2014

Ukrinform writes about this.

According to the newspaper's correspondent, presiding judge Hendrik Steinhaus announced that the verdict in the MH17 case will be announced on November 17 at 1:30 p.m. local time for all four people.

"The court intends to announce the verdict in the case on November 17, 2022, if there are no unforeseen circumstances," he said.

Today's meeting was formal; it lasted less than five minutes. Relatives of the victims, their lawyers, and the defense of one of the four defendants – lieutenant colonel of the GRU of the russian Federation Oleg Pulatov were present in the courtroom.

It should be recalled that the passenger Boeing-777 of "Malaysia Airlines," which carried out flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014.

There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board the liner, and all died.

The trial in the case began on March 9, 2020, after an international investigative team, the JIT, gathered evidence for years.

In the end, charges were brought against four suspects, three russians and one Ukrainian: Igor Girkin, Serhii Dubinskyi, Oleg Pulatov, and Leonid Kharchenko.

The international investigative team concluded that the Buk anti-aircraft missile system shot the plane down.

It belongs to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the russian Armed Forces, stationed in Kursk.

The prosecutor's office requests that all four defendants be sentenced to life imprisonment.