The Russian ambassador to the Netherlands was summoned to the Dutch foreign ministry on Friday (November 18) due to comments by his government, which denounced a verdict ” Politics “ after the conviction of two Russian soldiers and a Ukrainian separatist for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which killed 298 people in 2014.
“By doing so, Russia discredits the Dutch rule of law. This is absolutely unacceptable”judges the ministry in a press release issued the day after their judgment.
Thursday, in The Hague, the Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Doubinsky, and the Ukrainian Leonid Khartchenko were sentenced to life imprisonment. They are in Russia or in the Ukrainian territories annexed by Moscow, and their extradition seems excluded. Judging that it should have closed its airspace because of the separatist conflict in the Donbass, the Russian authorities have always maintained that Ukraine was solely responsible for the disaster. Of the 298 victims, 193 were of Dutch nationality.