"The prosecutor's office is satisfied with the verdict," RIA Novosti quotes van de Moosdijk.
According to her, it was especially important for the close relatives of the victims that the court considered the case extensively.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the trial in the Netherlands in the case of MH17, with its extensive “list of oddities, inconsistencies and dubious arguments of the prosecution”, which formed the basis of the verdict, has every chance of becoming one of the most scandalous in the history of legal proceedings.
On November 17, the District Court of The Hague sentenced Russians Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment in the 2014 MH17 crash that killed 298 passengers.
At the same time, in November 2021, Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin said that the investigation into the plane crash case is very one-sided and ignores some circumstances.
Nikolai Parshin, head of the Main Rocket and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, said in September 2018 that the rocket that shot down the plane was produced in 1986 at the Dolgoprudny enterprise, sent to a military unit in the Ukrainian SSR and did not return to Russian territory.