The Netherlands did not find Ukrainian fighters in the skies over the Donbas during the MH17 crash
Justice and Themis of the Netherlands continue to study the circumstances of the July 2014 crash of a Boeing 777-200ER airliner flying MH17 on the Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur route. On June 17, 2021, Judge Hendrik Steinhuis, closing the meeting, announced that the hearings in the case would resume on June 24.
At the last meeting in the Schiphol court complex, the Dutch prosecutor's office stated that it had not found Ukrainian fighters in the skies over the Donbas during this disaster. Prosecutor Manon Ridderbeks spoke about this during the hearing.
She noted that the International Joint Investigation Team (JIT) "has carefully studied the matter." Data from the Ukrainian and Russian authorities were requested, witnesses were heard, and the wreckage of the airliner, information from open sources and intercepted telephone conversations were examined.
The prosecutor explained that the primary radar data did not register a single military aircraft in the area. In addition, there are testimonies from Ukrainian witnesses and documents submitted by Ukraine, which indicate that there were no fighters in the air over the conflict zone. She presented documents showing that on an area of 50-60 sq. km, no other aircraft was shot down.
Ridderbeks added that all the collected debris was examined by employees of the Almaz-Antey Concern VKO JSC (Russia). As a result, no other wreckage was found that belonged to a different aircraft. She stressed that the prosecutor's office is open to new information that could help establish the truth and facilitate the adoption of a court decision.
She clarified that the prosecutor's office has no additions to voiced earlier by the court of the main version - flight MH17 was shot down by a Buk air defense missile system. However, the prosecutor's office has additions on two other issues: whether the missile that shot down the airliner was fired from near Pervomaysky, and whether the accused were involved in what happened with flight MH17.
The prosecutor presented a map on which it was noted how the findings of Almaz-Antey differ from the arguments of the Netherlands Aerospace Center and the Royal Military Academy (Belgium) about the place of the launch of the rocket. With regard to the involvement of the accused, she considers it necessary to re-wire some of the intercepted telephone conversations, which had already been presented earlier, in order to place them in the right context.
We remind you that the USA hide satellite images from the moment of the MH17 crash, refusing to provide them to the court.
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