Thread by @BrajanKot

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 1).
On Nov. 17, 2022, a Dutch court ruled that the plane crash of civilian Boeing 777-200ER Flight 27 the Malaysia Airlines on July 17, 2014 a over village Hrabove (Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast)

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 2).
was caused by surface-to-air missile fired from the Russian „Buk” missile system in the area of ​​the urban-type settlement of Pervomaiskyi (terytorialna hromada Snizhne, Horlivka Raion),

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 3).
which at that time was controlled by the forces of the self-proclaimed DNR, completely subordinated to the Russian Federation. The court found three of the four defendants guilty in this case: Igor Girkin [1], Sergey Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko [2].

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 4).
Endnotes:

[1] Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin alias „Igor Ivanovich Strelkov” – FSB colonel and war criminal

A moratorium on executions in Russia was established in 1996, while in Ukraine the death penalty was abolished in 2000.

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 5).
The so-called „military tribunals” in the DNR were established by Igor Girkin (a) in 2014 on the basis of draconian Stalinist decree issued by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 22, 1941.

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 6).
The death penalty in the DNR included not only serious crimes such as murder, but also those of a smaller species such as theft (b).

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 7).
During the all-Russian anti-terrorist forum of defenders of the Fatherland, which was held in Moscow in Nov. 2015, the former Minister of Defense of the DNR Igor Girkin, said:

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 8).
– „We still have front in Ukraine and everyone who tries to draw the border between the peopleʼs republics and Russia are hypocrites. It is clear that Russia is fighting to one degree or another in Donbass.

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 9).
The whole world knows about it, only for internal use we try to explain to people that there is no war and that we are not fighting, but some people’s republics are fighting, which are allegedly also independent.

@EliotHiggins @HansdeBorst1 10).
It is time to finally say honestly that Russia is waging a war there and that we need to win this war (c).”

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girk…
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1…
rferl.org/a/the-executio…
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0…
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0…
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia-…

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