A piece of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 is pictured in a field near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014. BULENT KILIC AFP AMSTERDAM - Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they would not file an appeal regarding the outcome of the trial over the 2014 downing of Flight MH 17 in eastern Ukraine, making the verdicts final even though the suspects remain at large.
A Dutch court convicted three men last month and sentenced them to life in prison for the shooting-down of the Malaysian airliner on July 17, 2014, as it flew over eastern Ukraine on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
All 298 people aboard were killed. Victims came from 10 countries, 196 of which came from the Netherlands.
This graphic shows previously established details about the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 in 2014.
The three were former Russian intelligence agents Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy, and Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian separatist leader.
The three were all found to have helped organise the transport of the Russian military BUK missile system that was used to shoot down the plane, though they were not the ones that physically pulled the trigger.
The three are fugitives and believed to be in Russia. A fourth former suspect, Russian Oleg Pulatov, was acquitted on all charges.
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Prosecutors said on Thursday they were satisfied with the clarity that the case had brought to relatives of victims about what had happened to MH 17.