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By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service May 19, 2020 The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it will use a journalist's interview with former separatist figures as evidence of crimes committed during the war in the east of the country, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). The SBU announcement on…

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it will use a journalist's interview with former separatist figures as evidence of crimes committed during the war in the east of the country, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). The SBU announcement on May 19 relates to two interviews published…

MH17 flew out of reach of all anti-aircraft known to Dutch military intelligence, leaked documents show. This may have consequences for those who are being tried in The Netherlands for having downed the passenger plane with a Russian Buk-TELAR.In the Netherlands, three Russian nationals and one Eastern Ukrainian are standing…

By RFE/RL April 29, 2020 Open-source researchers have linked a top general in Russia's main security and intelligence agency to the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. A report published jointly by Bellingcat and the Russian news site The Insider on April 28 said that Colonel…

MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in in July 2014One of the men charged over the shootdown of Malaysian airlines flight MH17 has refused to deny taking orders from a senior Russian general who has been named as a potential suspect.Colonel General Andrei Burlaka, the deputy head of the Russian Federal Security…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board BBC Russian has uncovered the possible identity of one of the suspects in the case of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine in 2014.Investigators' papers refer to a…

Open-source researchers have linked a top general in Russia’s main security and intelligence agency to the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. A report published jointly by Bellingcat and the Russian news site The Insider on April 28 said that Colonel General Andrei Burlaka, of Russia’s…

A senior FSB officer has become the highest-ranked Russian official linked to the investigation into the MH17 jet tragedy. Col. Gen. Andrei Burlaka, the FSB Border Service's chief of operational staff, has been named as the highest-ranking person of interest in the criminal investigation into the downing of the plane, by open-source…

As the sixth anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 approaches, independent investigators working for Bellingcat have claimed a top official from Russia’s security service was involved in the tragedy. The organisation named colonel general Andrey Burlaka of the FSB (federal security service) as “the highest-ranking Russian official identified as…

The highest-ranking Russian official identified as a person of interest in the criminal investigation into the 2014 shootdown of MH17 has been named as top FSB Colonel General Andrey Ivanovich Burlaka. Bellingcat reports that the general oversaw the movement of weapons from Russia to Ukraine, and he would have had…