Public Prosecutors Thijs Berger and Manon Ridderbeks (R) looks on prior the final day of the prosecution of the Public Prosecution Service in the extensive criminal proceedings regarding the downing of flight MH17 in Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam, on December 22, 2021. - The Boeing 777 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was blown out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing nearly 300 people. Dutch prosecutors demanded life imprisonment against suspects on Decemeber 22, 2021.
Amsterdam: Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday demanded life sentences for three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with murder over the shooting down of a passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014.
They said the defendants, who are all at large, helped supply a missile system that Russian-backed separatists used to fire a rocket at Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. All 298 people on board were killed.
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