Severity 5 — Catastrophic🌐 foreign policy17 July 2014
MH17 Shot Down Over Eastern Ukraine
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Russian-backed separatist territory in eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team concluded in 2016 that the aircraft was struck by a Buk surface-to-air missile brought in from Russia and fired from separatist-held territory, and a Dutch court convicted three men — two Russians and one Ukrainian separatist — in absentia of murder in November 2022, finding Russia exercised "overall control" over the separatist forces responsible.
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Vladimir Putin — United Russia
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Joint Investigation Team — MH17 District Court of The Hague Verdict🌍 See this event in context
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