Russia will withdraw from consultations with the Netherlands and Australia over the MH17 flight shot down over Ukraine in 2014, complaining of ‘vicious’ attempts to pin blame on Moscow. ‘Hostile acts by the Netherlands have made any continuation of the trilateral consultations and our participation senseless,’ Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday. … Read more
A Russian ex-spy charged with downing the passenger jet MH17 has said he feels a ‘moral responsibility’ for the disaster. Igor Girkin is one of four people accused of murder over the missile shot in July 2014 which killed all 298 people on the Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine. Girkin was a commander of separatist … Read more
A senior FSB officer has become the highest-ranked Russian official linked to the investigation into the MH17 jet tragedy. Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka, the FSB Border Service’s chief of operational staff, has been named as the highest-ranking person of interest in the criminal investigation into the downing of the plane, by open-source intelligence site Bellingcat and … Read more