According to her, several more blocks of hearings are planned, they will last until 2022.
"Therefore, this year the court does not plan to pass sentences ... When the court starts sentencing, we must wait and see, because there is still a lot of work ahead," RIA Novosti quotes Knife.
She noted that the examination of the merits is planned to begin in June, and, presumably, in September the relatives of the victims will be able to exercise their right to appeal to the court.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the refusal of the Netherlands to investigate the fact that the airspace over the eastern part of Ukraine was not closed on the day of the crash indicates the desire of The Hague to remove all responsibility from official Kiev.
The trial for the crash of flight MH17 began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020.
Four persons are walking along it.
Boeing 777, flying MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17, 2014 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Killed 283 passengers and 15 crew members.