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Igor Girkin shot down a passenger jet, then insulted Putin. Which one put him in jail?
Igor Girkin has escaped justice for downing flight MH17 but is going to jail after criticising Vladimir Putin
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This wasn't his first conviction.
In The Hague in 2022, in absentia, Girkin was found guilty of the murder of 298 people: the passengers and crew of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
The Boeing jet had been shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by Russian-controlled forces in the early stages of Russia's war there.
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"The rebels didn't shoot down the Boeing. I have nothing more to say."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68091877
