By KYIV. Dec 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Prosecutors in the Netherlands were satisfied by the Hague court ruling in the case over the MH17 flight crash and are not going to file an appeal, the case prosecution said in a statement on Thursday.
"The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has not appealed the judgement in the MH17 criminal case. The Public Prosecution Service is very satisfied that the judgment has clarified for the relatives what the actual circumstances were, surrounding the downing of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014," the statement said.
No extradition of the offenders will be requested because "[Russia] does not extradite its citizens," it said.
As reported, the District Court of The Hague found two Russian citizens and one Ukrainian – Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko – guilty of the crash of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 passenger liner, resulting in the death of 298 people.
Another accused, Russian Oleg Pulatov, has been found not guilty by the court.
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flying MH17 Amsterdam (Netherlands) – Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) was shot down in the sky over Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board died. Two thirds of the passengers are Dutch nationals. The cause of the disaster is being investigated by the International Investigation Team, which includes representatives of law enforcement agencies from Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and Malaysia.
In September 2016, the group published conclusions that the liner was shot down by a missile launched from the Buk surface-to-air missile, and a year ago announced that Buk belonged to Russia’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade stationed in Kursk.
