India, May 14 -- A UN body has found that Russia was responsible for the deadly downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Flight MH17 was heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine amid the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian military forces on 2014 July 17.
All 283 passengers and 15 crew members from 17 nationalities were killed. They included 196 Dutch citizens, 43 Malaysians and 38 Australian citizens or residents.
The council of the International Civil Aviation Organization voted on Monday that Russia failed to uphold its obligations under international air law which requires that States "refrain from resorting to the use of weapons against civil air...