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Presiding justice Hendrik Steenhuis, right, looks astatine a tv show during the ongoing proceedings and transgression proceedings regarding the downing of Malaysia Airlines formation MH17, astatine the precocious information tribunal astatine Schiphol airport, adjacent Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday Dec. 20, 2021. Prosecutors are scheduled to statesman explaining grounds and their lawsuit to judges Monday successful the execution proceedings of 3 Russians and a Ukrainian charged with engagement successful downing Malaysia Airlines formation MH17 implicit eastbound Ukraine successful 2014, sidesplitting each 298 passengers and crew. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

SCHIPHOL – Dutch prosecutors connected Wednesday demanded beingness sentences for 4 suspects successful the downing of Malaysia Airlines formation MH17 implicit eastbound Ukraine successful 2014.

Prosecutors said they recklessly utilized a Russian rocket to bring down the rider jet, sidesplitting each 298 passengers and crew.

Public authoritative Manon Ridderbeks made the condemnation request astatine the extremity of a three-day presumption of evidence. The suspects are being tried successful absentia.

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