Boudewijn van Eijck (L) and Sabine ten Doesschate defence lawyers for suspect Oleg Pulatov, arrive at The Schiphol Judicial Complex in Badhoevedorp on July 3, 2020, for the trial of four people – three Russian nationals and a Ukrainian – for allegedly killing 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down by a Buk missile over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, in the midst of the country's civil conflict. - AFP
THE HAGUE: Judges in the trial of suspects in the 2014 downing of a MalaysiaAirlines flight over Eastern Ukraine on Friday accepted a defence request that an investigator examine possible alternative explanations for the crash.
According to Dutch prosecutors, flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was deliberately shot down by a BUK missile fired by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, who obtained the missile launcher from a Russian army base just across the border.
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