Russia downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014, UN aviation council rules
298 passengers and crew died when plane was shot down over Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces
The UN aviation council on Monday ruled that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014 with the deaths of 298 passengers and crew, the Dutch government said.
In a statement, it said the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) would in the coming weeks consider what form of reparation was in order.
In November 2022, Dutch judges convicted two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the attack. Moscow called the ruling “scandalous” and said it would not extradite its citizens.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin rejected the “biased conclusions” of the report that Russia was responsible for the downing of MH17.
“Russia was not a country that participated in the investigation of this incident. Therefore, we so not accept all these biased conclusions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.