“All three experts (from the Netherlands Aerospace Center, the Royal Belgian Military Academy and Almaz-Antey) have all reached out to the experts (from the Dutch Aerospace Center, the Royal Belgian Military Academy and Almaz-Antey,” Sabine Tin Duskati, a lawyer for one of the Russian citizens accused of involvement in the downing of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014, during the trial in this case. Taking into account the results of the Almaz-Antey investigation, its comprehensive approach and the simple explanations it provided in its reports and during the interview, we consider the results of the Almaz-Antey investigation to be the most reliable.
She stated that the defense side decided to resort to a group of American experts with experience to evaluate the reports of “Almaz Anti” and the Dutch and Belgian experts, adding: “The American experts concluded that the results of the investigation of the “Almaz Anti” company in the MH17 case are the most consistent with the nature of the damage that was found. It is in all available aircraft wreckage.”
The trial of the MH17 case began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020. The court accuses 4 people, Russian citizens Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Bulatov and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, of being involved in this incident. Bulatov’s interests are represented before the court by an international group of lawyers, while the remaining suspects are being tried in absentia.
In December 2021, the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment calling for the four defendants to be sentenced to life in prison for “destroying an aircraft by an organized group, resulting in the deaths of 298 people on board”.
Malaysian Boeing Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17, 2014 near Donetsk. There were 298 people on board, all of whom were killed. Kyiv immediately accused the military units of the Donetsk Republic of shooting down the plane, but they said that they did not have the means to shoot down the plane at this altitude.
Ukraine refused to provide data from its radar, while the United States did not provide the investigation with its satellite images, which, according to the assurances of the American authorities, appear at the moment of the missile launch.