Some documents in the case of MH17 that were published by the platform Bonanza Media are authentic. This was confirmed by the press service of the Australian federal police.
Summary
The so-called “action”, where relatives of victims of the crash allegedly brought 298 white chairs to the building of the Russian Consulate has nothing to do with reality. This is part of anti-Russian hysteria in the media, with describing an event at which the journalists themselves have not been. Even the building of the Russian consulate is not visible in the the photos.
There are just some chairs standing on the lawn, and it’s not a fact that there are 298 of them. That’s how fakes appear.
Disproof
In fact, the action took place in front of the Russia's Hague Embassy, not the consulate. The chairs were laid out in rows like seats in an airplane and represented the victims who died when a Buk missile fired from territory held by pro-Russia separatist rebels shot down the flight MH17 on July 17, 2014.
The action was observed by international journalists and documented not only with photos, but also with videos. Embassy officials did not comment on this action.
Background:
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives aim to undermine the results of the MH17 investigation and the outcomes of the future trial.
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) - which is comprised of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service officials and the Dutch police, along with police and criminal justice authorities from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine - has concluded that flight MH17 was shot down on 17 July 2014 by a missile of the 9M38 series, launched by a BUK-TELAR, from farmland in the vicinity of Pervomaiskiy. At that time, the area was controlled by pro-Russian fighters. The BUK-TELAR was brought in from the territory of the Russian Federation and subsequently, after having shot down flight MH17, was taken back to the Russian Federation. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has concluded that the BUK-TELAR used to down MH17 originates from the 53rd Anti Aircraft Missile brigade, a unit of the Russian army from Kursk in the Russian Federation.
On the basis of the investigation conducted by the JIT, the Dutch Public Persecution service will persecute Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, Sergey Nikolayevich Dubinskiy, Oleg Yuldashevich Pulatov, and Leonid Volodymyrovych Kharchenko for causing the crash of MH17 and murdering the 298 persons on board. The first public hearing took place on 9 March 2020 in the Netherlands.
The European Union and NATO have called on the Russian Federation to accept its responsibility and to fully cooperate with all efforts to establish accountability. On the basis of the JIT’s conclusions, the Netherlands and Australia are convinced that Russia is responsible for the deployment of the BUK installation that was used to down MH17. The two governments are formally holding Russia accountable.
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