The Netherlands seeks accountability for those responsible for MH17 downing - PM

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dick Schoof, says the Netherlands seeks justice and prosecution of those responsible for the MH17 downing.

He said this in response to Ukrinform's questions during a meeting with the media after the ceremony commemorating the MH17 victims on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.

"After the decisions in the District court in The Hague, we hope, of course, that we get people in detention as well, but it's fair to say that Russia is not helping. So we are hoping, but it's going to be very difficult. But to proceed, as I mentioned, I'm sure that we proceed very long on that one. But you're not going to give up. We are not going to give up,” the prime minister said.

He also noted that "the relationship with Russia are very difficult. Uh, and we support Ukraine in the fight against Russia. But the most important thing is that we have endurance on that aspect, and we we we will not step away."

As Ukrinform reported earlier, a Boeing-777 passenger jet flight MH17 operated by Malaysia Airlines, flying en route Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur, crashed over the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region on July 17, 2014.

There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board the liner. All of them died.

The international investigative team concluded that the plane was shot down from the Buk anti-aircraft missile complex, which belongs to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, stationed in Kursk.

A court in the Netherlands found guilty in the case of the downing of flight MH17 former FSB officer and former "Minister of Defense of the DPR" Igor Girkin (Strelkov), General of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, head of the "GRU of the DPR" Serhiy Dubinsky and citizen of Ukraine Leonid Kharchenko.

Relatives of victims of the MH17 disaster are initiating the creation of an information center in the Netherlands in memory of the tragedy.