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Add as preferred source on GoogleRussia rejects UN's biased ruling on the 2014 downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 over Ukraine, involving 298 casualties.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected as biased a ruling by the U.N. aviation council that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2017 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 spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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.
(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Lucy Papachristou and Mark Trevelyan; editing by Mark Heinrich)
The main topic is Russia's rejection of the UN ruling on the 2014 downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 over Ukraine.
Russia claims the UN ruling is biased and states it was not part of the investigation.
Dutch judges convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian in absentia for their roles in the MH17 attack.
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