The Australian government hits three of the men behind the downing of flight MH17 with sanctions and travel bans in a move likely to further inflame tensions with Russia.
The Australian government has hit three of the men behind the downing of flight MH17 with sanctions and travel bans in a move likely to further inflame tensions with Russia.All 298 people on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 died when a Russian-made missile hit the plane in 2014New sanctions imposed by Australia target two of the convicted men
Two Russians and a Ukrainian were convicted of murder last year after a court in the Netherlands found the three men helped procure the surface-to-air missile launcher that shot the plane out of the sky. The government has also imposed sanctions on Sergey Muchkaev, a colonel with the Russian Armed Forces and the commander of the anti-aircraft missile brigade that supplied the missile.
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