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