On July 19, international investigators announced plans to try three Russians and one Ukrainian for murder in the July 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which killed 298 people.
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Chief Prosecutor with the National Prosecutor's Office of the Netherlands Fred Westerbeke, gestures next to the pictures of former FSB colonel Igor Girkin (from top to bottom), Sergei Dubinsky employed by Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, Oleg Pulatov former soldier of the Spetznaz GRU and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, on June 19, 2019 in Nieuwegein during a press conference of the JIT on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014.
