Three Russians and a Ukrainian face prosecution in the attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The 2014 crash killed 298 people.
The Joint Investigation Team said it would issue national and international arrest warrants Wednesday for the four suspects. Three Russians, Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, were named, along with Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko.According to investigators, Girkin is a former colonel of Russia's Federal Security Service , Dubinskiy was employed by Russia's military intelligence agency GRU and Pulatov was a former soldier of the Russian special forces, Spetsnaz-GRU.
"Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over territory held by pro-Russian separatists as it flew from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in July 2014. The 298 who died came from 17 countries. According to Westerbeke, the suspects are not accused of firing the missile, but are"just as punishable as the person who committed the crime," Westerbeke said.He added that they are suspected of obtaining the Buk missile"with the goal to shoot a plane.
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