Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

A Dutch-led team made the assessment, but said it had suspended its investigation because of insufficient evidence and rules that prevent new prosecutions.

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The victim’s families drew some solace from the verdict, which placed responsibility for the tragedy squarely with Moscow, but the men found guilty may never be arrested.

A Dutch court sentenced three men with ties to the Russian security services to life in prison for shooting down a passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people on board. A fourth suspect was acquitted.

The disaster claimed 298 civilian lives, and came in the midst of a conflict that foreshadowed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Dutch foreign minister said the Netherlands was taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people.

The Dutch government made the move to help individual cases brought by victims’ relatives, the foreign minister said in a letter to Parliament.

If a Ukrainian passenger plane was shot down in Iran on Wednesday, as American officials believe, it would join a long list of civilian aircraft brought down by armed forces.

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International investigators tied three Russians and a pro-Russian Ukrainian to the crime. They — and their sponsor — must be called to account.