MH17 convictions pave the way for war crime prosecutions from Ukrainian invasion
- Written by Lauren Sanders, Senior Research Fellow on Law and the Future of War, The University of Queensland

On November 17 2022, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of murder in relation to the downing of flight MH17 by a Buk-TELAR surface-to-air missile in 2014 over rebel-held territory in Ukraine.
This conviction is the first concluded legal action in relation to the incident. It is...
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