Bellingcat Names New Suspects In Downing Of Flight MH17

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Bellingcat Names New Suspects In Downing Of Flight MH17
Christopher Miller

LATEST: Relatives of MH17 victims say Dutch investigators say four suspects to be charged with murder, trials to begin around March 2020.

KYIV -- The open-source investigative collective Bellingcat has named new suspects in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, which killed all 298 people aboard.

The group released the names in a report on June 19, just hours before Dutch prosecutors involved in the official Joint Investigation Team (JIT) were expected to identify at least four suspects and file the first criminal charges in the case.

The Bellingcat report identifies several individuals in three groups subordinate to the self-described Ministry of Defense of Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/jit-name-suspects-charges-mh17-ukraine-malaysia-russia-shootdown/30007817.html

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 Four suspects charged with shooting down passenger jet in Ukraine
By Yaron Steinbuch
June 19, 2019 | 8:33am

Four people — three Russians and one Ukrainian — will face murder charges in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine in which 298 people were killed in 2014, officials said Wednesday.

Russian nationals Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, will be prosecuted in the Netherlands, with a trial due to start in March 2020, according to the Dutch-led probe.  ...

The four suspects are likely to be tried in absentia as Russia does not allow its nationals to be extradited for prosecution. Investigators said Kharchenko’s whereabouts were currently unknown.

Last year, the same investigation team said the BUK anti-aircraft missile that struck the Boeing 777 had originated from the 53rd Russian military brigade based in the southwestern Russian city of Kursk.  ... More at NY Post