‘It Doesn’t Change Anything’: Mixed Emotions as Court Verdict for MH17 Handed Down

A picture of victims of the MH17 crash rests on empty chairs during a protest outside the Russian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 8, 2020. Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters

Families of Australian MH17 victims found some solace in the overnight conviction of three people in the downing of the flight but said their family members would never return.

A Dutch court found two Russians and one Ukrainian separatist guilty in absentia of killing 298 people, including 38 Australians, when they shot Flight 17 down in 2014.