Based on the evidence collected by the international investigation team, which includes SSU officers, the District Court of The Hague has issued the first judgment in the case of downing of a passenger plane on the flight MH-17 over Donetsk region.

Two citizens of russia ihor girkin and serhii dubinskyi, as well as one citizen of Ukraine leonid kharchenko, were found guilty of shooting down the plane. They were all sentenced to life imprisonment.

It was also proved in court that the Buk missile system, which was used to shoot down MH-17, had been brought from russia to Ukraine and then taken back. It has also been officially recorded that russia supplied weapons and financed the terrorist organization ‘dnr’.

The total amount of compensation for relatives of the victims of the crash will be over 16 million euros.

This is only the first verdict in this proceeding. Other persons involved are expected to be brought to justice.

Overall, during the investigation, the international investigation team, which includes SSU investigators, collected an unprecedented evidence base having:

• analyzed over 5.5 billion pages of information on the Internet (photos, videos, publications in social networks and mass media, blogs, forums, etc;)
• studied over 1.5 million phone calls in the area of the missile launch and along its route;
• interrogated more than 260 people as witnesses;
• conducted over 3,000 expert surveys;
• in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk oblast, carried out a unique investigative experiment - controlled detonation of Buk 9M38M1 anti-aircraft guided missiles, the findings of which proved to be decisive for expert conclusions.

On July 17, 2014, the passenger plane Boeing 777 on Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 of was shot down in the sky over Ukraine. This led to the death of 298 people: citizens of 10 countries (including about 80 children).