Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the course of the meeting with Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders informed him on the details of the investigation into the Malaysia Boeing crash in Ukraine's east.
“Dutch Foreign Minister has reported on the course of the investigation being carried out by an international group led by the Netherlands,” the press service of the Ukrainian government reported.
For his part, Yatsenyuk has said that the government considers the downing of the commercial aircraft as a crime against humanity. “The government and law enforcement agencies handled all the necessary information and materials to the international investigative group and now are waiting for the immediate establishment of all the circumstances of the tragedy and a proper punishment for those involved in this catastrophe,” reads the statement.
Premier stressed the importance of a joint and coordinated work by representatives of all the countries, whose citizens died in the catastrophe, so that perpetrators and those, who had delivered weapons, provided both financial and political support to the criminals, to be brought to justice as soon as possible.
The Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777, which was flying from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. All 298 people on board were killed. They included 192 Dutch citizens (one also had U.S. citizenship), 44 Malaysians, including the 15 crew members, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, ten Britons (one also had South African nationality), four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and one New Zealander.
The Dutch Safety Board published a preliminary report on an investigation into the MH17 crash on Sept. 9, which says that the plane was technically sound and broke up in the air probably as a result of structural damage caused by a large number of objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.
Nine victims of the crash haven’t been identified yet. On Nov. 8, five coffins with the remains of the victims, which had been recently found at the crash site, were sent from Kharkiv to the Netherlands in the presence of Koenders and Head of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Ihor Baluta.
