The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, stressed that the sentence of the Dutch court for the demolition of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shows that every Russian crime will have its legal sentence.
The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, has affirmed this Thursday that the sentence of the Dutch justice for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, in which 298 people died, confirms that every Russian crime will have its sentence.
“Every Russian war crime, every terrorist attack by them will receive its legal response. Today’s decision in The Hague demonstrates this,” he said in his usual night speech.
The Dutch Justice sentenced this Thursday life imprisonment to two Russians and a Ukrainian tried in absentia for their role in the tragedy of flight MH17, the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in eastern Ukraine in 2014, in a judicial process with the focus on Russia.
The Russians Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky and the Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko are “guilty” of the murder of the 298 people who were on board MH17, The court concluded, which determined that the conversations intercepted and used as evidence in the trial are “authentic”, correspond to calls between the defendants, and the recordings “were not manipulated”, nor were the photos and videos used as evidence.
In his speech, Zelensky referred to the “very important” decision taken in the Netherlands: “the first sentence for the murderers who destroyed the Malaysian Boeing in the sky over Donbass in 2014. Three people received life imprisonment. And the day will surely come when they will begin to carry out this punishment.”
For the Ukrainian president, it is not just a sentence against “three murderers”, but “Russia lied a lot about this disaster, but the key facts were still established.”
Now the perpetrators, he added, have been sentenced and “the basis is provided to sentence the guilty and higher level.” Namely, “those who bear full personal responsibility for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, the original crime that gave rise to all the others committed by racists since 2014.”
According to Zelenskythis is something without which “it is really impossible to protect the world from the repetition of wars like the Russian aggression against our state.”
“When all the murderers and executioners are convicted, when their commanders and the political ‘ceiling’ receive fair sentences, when Russia compensates for all the damage caused by Russian aggression, it will be a very solid foundation for long-term peace,” has stated.