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Dutch court qualifies Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014 as ‘international armed conflict’

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The Hague District Court recognized that Russia had overall control over the operations of its proxies in Donetsk Oblast since mid-May 2014. On Nov. 17, the Dutch court is to deliver the verdict against three Russians and a Ukrainian suspected of shooting down the Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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