International investigators said they would reveal the results of an investigation into “other parties” involved in the crash of flight MH17 next month, after three people were found guilty last year.
The results are expected to address their investigations into who fired the missile that brought down the plane over eastern Ukraine in 2014 and who originally supplied the Russian-made projectile.
The two Russians and the Ukrainian sentenced to life in absentia for murder by a Dutch court in November were not found guilty of pulling the trigger, only of helping to bring the missile to Ukraine.
During a press conference in The Hague on February 8, investigators will reveal the “results of the ongoing investigation into the other parties involved in the downing of flight MH17,” the joint international investigation team (JIT) said in a statement. .
The relatives of the victims will be informed as a matter of priority, he said.
Prominent Donetsk People’s Republic
“In addition to the involvement of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic), the JIT also investigated the BUK-TELAR crew and those responsible for supplying this Russian weapons system that shot down MH17,” it added.
Dutch judges concluded that Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko were members of the separatist DPR and that the group was controlled by Moscow, but it was unclear who actually used the BUK missile system when the plane was shot down. .
All 298 passengers and crew were killed when the plane connecting Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was struck over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
The JIT includes members from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine, the countries most affected by the accident.
Moscow denied any involvement, calling the verdict “shocking.”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared this Wednesday “admissible” most of the complaints that the Netherlands sent it for the MH17 accident.
Source: BFM TV
