MH17 families hope truth emerges from unprecedented trial


In this file photo taken on July 20,2014, a piece of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is pictured in a field near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk. -AFP

AMSTERDAM (AP): United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth.

A trial starts Monday (March 9) in the Netherlands for three Russians linked to their country’s security and intelligence services and a Ukrainian rebel commander.

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