Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 (flight MH17) is shot down by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. A 6-meter-long SA11 Gadfly or SA17 Grizzly missile, equipped with a targeting radar and mounted on mobile batteries, was likely used. All 298 passengers, 193 of them Dutch, die. The court will reach a conviction in November 2022 for two Russians and one Ukrainian, all three living in Russia. Initially, on the afternoon of July 17, 2014, a spokesperson for the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk announced that a Ukrainian An-26 military transport plane had been shot down by a mobile anti-aircraft missile system. Only a few days later was it discovered that it was not a Ukrainian military aircraft. The incident marks a turning point in relations between Russia and the West. A door has closed definitively.
