Almost 300 people were killed when the Malaysian Airlines flight was shot down over Ukraine in 2014. The UN aviation council has ruled that Russian-backed separatists were to blame.

The United Nations’ aviation council on Monday, ruled that Russia was responsible for downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine, which killed all of the nearly 300 people on board in 2014.

This number included 196 Dutch citizens and 28 Australian citizens, their governments said in separate statements.

The case was launched in 2022 by Australia and the Netherlands.

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    1 day ago

    The UN is specifically not a protester with a gun.

    The moment the UN uses proactive force, it just becomes NATO.

    Yes this is just a strongly worded letter. You might think that’s useless. Not sure what you expect them to do differently though?