Leonid Chartchenko News Today

Igor Girkin, one of three men convicted for the downing of flight MH17, will remain in custody. A Russian court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by his lawyers to suspend his pre-trial detention. The 52-year-old man was arrested in July 2023 in Moskow on charges of extremism.

Two men who were convicted of being involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine were placed on the European Union's sanctions list. This was partly at the insistence of both the Netherlands and Australia. Some 298 people were on the plane when it was shot down, including 196 Dutch citizens, and 27 Australians.