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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

The latest news and comment on the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on 17 July 2014

July 2023

  • Art dealer Tim Klingender

    Australia news live
    Search continues for entrepreneur after Sydney boat crash – as it happened

    Police extend search for Andrew Findlay after body of art dealer Tim Klingender was found

June 2023

  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese

    Australia news live
    Albanese says Russia should withdraw from Ukraine; Australia sanctions three MH17 culprits – as it happened

    Australian prime minister says ‘it is Russia and its involvement that keeps this war going’

February 2023

  • A view of the wreckage to the cockpit of flight MH17. International investigators have implicated Vladimir Putin in the downing of the plane.

    MH17: ‘strong indications’ Putin signed off on supplying missile that hit plane

    Investigators say findings suggest decision to provide Buk system to Donetsk separatists ‘taken at presidential level’

January 2023

  • A picture of Russian national Igor Girkin is shown on screen as international investigators present their latest findings in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

    Human rights trial against Russia over downing of flight MH17 to go ahead

    Judges rule Russia eligible for trial for alleged war crimes in Ukraine because of its effective control over separatist-held areas

18 November 2022

  • Anthony Albanese and prime minister Justin Trudeau

    Australia news live
    Apec leaders condemn North Korean missile test – as it happened

    This blog is now closed

17 November 2022

  • Penny Wong

    Penny Wong accuses Vladimir Putin of ‘harbouring murderers’ after MH17 verdict

  • Australian federal police deputy chief officer, Peter Crozier, arrives at the court in Badhoevedorp on Thursday to hear the verdicts.

    MH17: eight-year wait for justice is finally over for families of Australian victims

  • Judge Hendrik Steenhuis finds Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko guilty of the attack, as a fourth man is acquitted.

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    MH17: three men found guilty of murdering 298 people in shooting down of plane – video

  • A part of the wreckage is seen at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

    Three men found guilty of murdering 298 people in shooting down of MH17

October 2022

  • Igor Girkin

    ‘Get Igor Girkin’: hopes MH17 suspect could be captured fighting in Ukraine

    Flight victims’ relatives say it would be a ‘miracle’ if former separatist leader finally faced justice

March 2022

  • A reconstruction of the MH17 wreckage which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014

    Australia and the Netherlands launch legal action against Russia over MH17 disaster

    The two countries will allege Russia breached international aviation law for its role in 2014 downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine

September 2021

  • Ria van der Steen, who lost her father and stepmother in the MH17 crash, prepares to give testimony in court in the trial of four men charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

    ‘We lost joy in living’: grief of MH17 victims’ relatives laid bare in court

  • Ria van der Steen, who lost her father and stepmother in the MH17 crash, prepares to give testimony in court in the trial of four men charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

    ‘I am full of feelings of revenge’: families of flight MH17 victims demand justice

June 2021

  • MH17 crash debris

    Multiple sightings of missile launcher before MH17 shot down, court told

    Four men on trial in absentia in the Netherlands over downing of flight with 298 onboard over Ukraine

February 2021

  • Demonstrations Follow Navalny Detention<br>MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JANUARY 23: (RUSSIA OUT) A participant shouts during an unauthorized protest rally against the jailing of oppositon leader Alexei Navalny clash with police, on January 23, 2021 in Central Moscow, Russia. Police on Saturday detained more than 2000 protesters demanding the release of Vladimir Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins review – the reinvention of reporting for the internet age

    In this gripping manifesto, the citizen journalist who uncovered the identities of the Salisbury assassins sets out his vision for news gathering in the 21st century

March 2020

  • Toys near a cross in memory of victims of the MH17 plane crash in Rozsypne, Donetsk region, Ukraine.

    MH17 trial: Russia keen to thwart investigation, says prosecutor

    Several witnesses in ‘fear for their lives’ if their identities are revealed, hearing into shooting down of airliner is told
  • Relatives of victims of the MH17 crash hold a silent protest in front of the Russian embassy in The Hague

    MH17 plane crash trial opens in the Netherlands

    Trial begins of three Russians and a Ukrainian accused of killing 298 people
  • FILE - In this July 22, 2014 file photo, a pro-Russian rebel touches the MH17 wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver them something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

    MH17 families fear they still face a long road to justice as trial begins

    Family of Richard Mayne say it could be years before they know why 298 people died

January 2020

  • Rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a Ukrainian plane crash in Shahedshahr, near Tehran, Iran.

    The downing of flight 752 in Iran is a tragedy of complacency

    Martin Rivers
  • The ‘seeker head’ of a Tor-M1 missile that was allegedly photographed at the crash site in Tehran.

    Catastrophic failure of Ukraine jet in Iran suggests missile strike

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