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Russia rejects UN ruling on 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17
"Our position is well known. You know that Russia was not a country that took part in the investigation of this incident, so we do not accept any biased conclusions," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
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A Malaysian air crash investigator inspects the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 22, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)
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he Kremlin on Tuesday rejected as biased a ruling by the UN aviation council that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014 that killed all 298 passengers and crew.
"Our position is well known. You know that Russia was not a country that took part in the investigation of this incident, so we do not accept any biased conclusions," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
Russia's Foreign Ministry issued its own denunciation of the aviation council's ruling.
"Russia will not recognise the Council's decision. It is not legitimate," the ministry said on its website.
It said the "main guilty party" of the 2014 incident was the Ukrainian government in Kyiv which at the time was battling Russian-financed separatists in its eastern Donbas region. Those operations, it said, were conducted "under the false pretext of fighting terrorism".
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.
The victims included 196 Dutch citizens and 38 Australian citizens or residents.
In November 2022, Dutch judges convicted two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the attack. Moscow called the ruling "scandalous" and said it would not extradite its citizens.
