Australia Sanctions Three People for Downing MH17 Over Ukraine
- Includes two men found guilty in the Hague for 2014 attack
- Sanctions come amid standoff over Russian embassy site
Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 lies in a field in Grabovo, Ukraine, in 2014.
Photographer: Rob Stothard/Getty Images
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Australia placed sanctions on three individuals involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, after two were convicted in the Hague late last year for the attack that killed all 298 people on board.
The financial sanctions and travel bans target Russian Sergey Dubinskiy and Ukrainian national Leonid Kharchenko, who were both found guilty in 2022 alongside a third perpetrator, Igor Girkin, who was previously sanctioned by Australia in 2014 for supporting separatist activity in eastern Ukraine.