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MH17 Trial Begins In Netherlands While Four Defendants Remain At-Large

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   The trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian citizen over the July 2014
   downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in separatist-controlled eastern
   Ukraine has opened in the Netherlands.

   The suspects-- Russian citizens Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, and Oleg
   Pulatov, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko-- are charged with the murders
   of 298 passengers and crew who were killed when flight MH17, flying
   from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down by a Russian-made
   antiaircraft missile.

   All four remain at large and were not at the high-security court,
   located near Schiphol Airport where the doomed flight took off, despite
   the issuance of international warrants for their arrest.

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