The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Russian Ambassador Alexander Shulgin due to new circumstances in the investigation into the Malaysian Boeing 777 that crashed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Dutch Broadcasting Corporation.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he called the ambassador because of “the investigation team’s conclusions” that Russia was involved in the tragedy, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin himself ordered the use of weapons that shot down the plane. down.
Shulgin was asked to come to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and make “written and oral statements” on this subject.
The Dutch company also reported that some Dutch lawmakers suggested expelling the ambassador from the country and urging their European colleagues to follow this example at the EU summit in Brussels. However, Mark Rutte said that he did not see the need for this and wanted to keep communication channels with Russia open. In response to these actions, he expressed the opinion that Moscow will certainly send the Dutch ambassador from the Russian Federation.
Formerly the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office statedHe said that answers to questions about the investigation of the Boeing crash in Ukraine should be sought in Russia.
The plane crash lawsuit has been ongoing since March 2020. The court in The Hague ruled that the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by the Buk air defense system launched from Pervomaisky. Kyiv blamed the militia for this, but they said that they did not have the opportunity to shoot down a plane from such a height.
On November 17, 2022, The Hague District Court found Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko guilty of destroying the plane and sentenced them to life imprisonment in absentia. The court also found the fourth defendant, Russian Oleg Pulatov, not guilty and rejected the prosecutor’s request for detention.