On Wednesday, January 25, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will announce whether it will consider the case on the claim of the Netherlands against Russia on the destruction of flight MH17 in 2014 over the Donbass. It is reported by the BBC.

The Netherlands believes that Russian disinformation about the role of Moscow in the incident is a violation of the human rights of relatives and has officially filed a lawsuit demanding compensation.

The ECtHR will announce at 14:30 French time whether this claim falls under its jurisdiction and whether it will consider this case on the merits.

It should be noted that the ECtHR is already considering a lawsuit in the MH17 case, filed collectively by 380 complainants, relatives of the deceased passengers and crew members of the aircraft.. They refer to Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and lay all responsibility on Russia for the death of their family members, in particular, they insist that the Russian Federation is directly or indirectly responsible for the plane crash, and also deliberately did not investigate it and ignored other investigations..

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Recall that in November, a verdict was also passed in the criminal investigation on flight MH17..

A court in The Hague found that Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down in the skies over the Donbass by a missile from a Russian Buk air defense system launched from Pervomaisky, which at the time was controlled by Russian-accountable separatists. The court found guilty of the crash the employees of the GRU of the Russian Federation Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian collaborator Leonid Kharchenko. All three were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment.. Another defendant, Oleg Pulatov, was acquitted by the court.

The Kremlin called this decision a "