The European Court of Human Rights has received a lawsuit by the Government of the Netherlands against Russia in connection with its role in the destruction in 2014 of the liner operating flight MH17. This was announced in Strasbourg by the press officer of the court Denis Lambert. According to him, the lawsuit is currently being studied..

The Netherlands authorities today announced their intention to file a lawsuit. Filing a "

The Dutch authorities noted that a “state complaint” is submitted to the ECHR at the same time as individual complaints from the relatives of the victims of the disaster against Russia.

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As expected, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the Hague’s decision “another blow to Russian-Dutch relations”. In her statement, the Hague embarked on the path of unilaterally blaming Russia for the crash of flight MH17 from the very beginning.. According to Zakharova, "

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation reported that they have not yet received notification of a complaint. At the same time, the ministry said that "

In accordance with the rules for the consideration of interstate disputes published on the ECHR website, upon receipt of a complaint, the court must immediately bring it to the attention of the second party. After that, the judges who are considering the case are appointed, and the defendant can send written comments.

At the request of one of the parties or the decision of the court, before consideration of the case on the merits, a meeting may be held on jurisdiction, in the future the case is considered in the standard procedure for the ECHR.

A Malaysian Airlines plane flying a regular flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by a Buk air defense missile on July 17, 2014 in the sky over the Donbass. All 298 people aboard. According to an international group of investigators, the missile system was delivered to separatist-controlled areas of Ukraine from Russia. Moscow denies any fault in the death of the liner and its passengers.