On Sept. 28, investigators released a long-awaited report into the 2014 missile attack on a Malaysian commercial airliner. They say they have solid evidence that the missile came from Russia and that pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine were the ones who shot it down. Here’s a primer on what the report alleges, and why the MH17 case still matters two years later.
WHAT HAPPENED
A surface-to-air missile hit Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people aboard, most of them Dutch citizens.
