THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch judges are set to provide their decision Thursday in the trial in absentia of 3 Russians and a Ukrainian over their declared functions in the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines guest jet and the deaths of all 298 individuals on board.
The judgment will come more than 8 years after the airliner takingatrip from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, throughout a dispute inbetween pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian forces.
A painstaking worldwide examination developed that a Buk rocket fired from a launcher that was trucked into Ukrainian rebel-held area from a Russian military base and then driven back to Russia triggered flight MH17 to blowup and crash.
Investigators state it came from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a system of the Russian armed forces based in the Russian city of Kursk.
During the trial, districtattorneys led judges through thousands of pages of proof to assistance their case, consistingof pieces of metal recuperated from the bodies of victims, tapped phone discussions and comprehensive social media posts and other open-source information to track the motions of the Buk system priorto and after MH17 was damaged.
They have required life sentences for all 4 presumes, the greatest possible penalty under Dutch law.
Moscow and defense attorneys for one of the presumes have consistently cast doubt on the findings and ste