The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, welcomed, on Saturday 7 March, the start, on Monday 9 March, of the criminal trial on the downing of flight MH17.
The plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, killing 298 people of 17 nationalities, including many Europeans.
The start of the trial "marks an important milestone towards establishing the truth, and achieving justice for the victims of Flight MH17 and their next of kin,...