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Leonid Kharchenko, one of the defendants in the flight MH17 accident case, which is being considered in the Netherlands, was detained by DPR militants in March 2020, two days after the trial in this case began. , writes the BBC Russian Service.
In March 2020, Leonid Kharchenko, a member of the “DPR” group, was detained in occupied Donetsk, accused of the accident of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing-747 that was shot down over Donbass in 2014. On this, referring to his own sources, he writes “Russian BBC Service”.
Kharchenko is one of four suspects charged by the International Investigation Team (JIT) in June 2019 for the crash of Flight MH17. At the time, when the militants shot down the passenger side, Kharchenko was the commander of the “DNR GRU Reconnaissance Battalion”.
According to two interlocutors of the publication, on March 11, 2020 Kharchenko was arrested near his home in Donetsk and “arrested”, this happened two days after the trial began in the Netherlands. On May 8, the militant’s arrest spanned another two months.
“The charges are ridiculous: they allegedly participated in an illegal search in 2014 and in illegal possession of weapons. According to the first paragraph, the victims have no complaints against him. According to the second, this pistol was handed over to the Ministry of State Security in 2019 to ensure personal safety in relation to case “17”, an interlocutor familiar with the Kharchenko case told the BBC Russian Service.
Former “colleague” Kharchenko believes that the Ukrainian security services detained him to avoid his arrest (in July 2019, the Ukrainian Security Service was able to arrest and remove from the occupied Snezhny another person involved in the MH17 accident – Vladimir Tsemakh ; he was later extradited to Russia as part of a detainee exchange.)
A Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on flight MH17 crashed on July 17, 2014 near Torez, Donetsk region. He killed all 298 people on board (citizens of the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, the Philippines, Canada, and New Zealand).
According to JIT’s findings, Flight MH17 was shot down from the Buk complex from territory controlled by pro-Russian militants. After the plane crash, the weapon was returned to the Russian Federation.
On May 24, 2018, investigators specified that the Buk reached Donbass from the Kursk region. The group restored the route along which the unit was transported.
In May 2018, the Netherlands and Australia officially accused Russia of crashing Flight MH17.
On June 19, 2019, an international investigation team announced a suspicion of four involved in the crash of Flight MH17: Russian citizens to “former DPR Minister of Defense” Igor Girkin, former head of “DPR Intelligence” Sergey Dubinsky, former Russian officer Oleg Pulatov and citizen of Ukraine Harchenko. Then they were charged.
On March 9, a trial began in the Netherlands.
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