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UN body finds Russia responsible for downed MH17 flight

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UN body finds Russia responsible for downed MH17 flight – DW – 05/13/2025

Almost 300 people were killed when the Malaysian Airlines flight was shot down over Ukraine in 2014. The UN aviation council has ruled that Russian-backed separatists were to blame.

The United Nations' aviation council on Monday, ruled that Russia was responsible for downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine, which killed all of the nearly 300 people on board in 2014.

This number included 196 Dutch citizens and 28 Australian citizens, their governments said in separate statements.

The case was launched in 2022 by Australia and the Netherlands.

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"This decision also sends a clear message to the international community: states cannot violate international law with impunity."
And how have they been punished, exactly?
"We call upon Russia to finally face up to its responsibility for this horrific act of violence and make reparations for its egregious conduct, as required under international law,"
You call upon them? So they haven't been punished and won't be, got it.
- "Yeah, that'll be a No from me, dawg." -Putin
- You can just say you don't know what the UN is, it's ok.
  
  I know exactly what they UN is, and my comment reflects that.
  
  They get to send strongly worded letters to formally request that other nations possibly consider the contents of.
  Or possibly maybe at some point in the future face slight financial consequences.
  They're protesters with guns that refuse to use the guns to actually help people unless it's inside the extremely narrow scope of their rules.
  When you're dealing with a person that refuses to listen to anyone around them, holding an intervention is useless. Discussing the problems don't help unless the person doing something wrong is willing to listen to the people they hate.
  
  The UN only has power insofar as other countries agree that it does. If they start taking harsher stances, countries will start pulling out of the UN which defeats its whole purpose.
  
  Nobody will want to join the UN when they see how little is done for member states. Their inaction will be their end, just like the League of Nations before them.
  
  Then don't. They are free to leave.
  
  The UN is specifically not a protester with a gun.
  The moment the UN uses proactive force, it just becomes NATO.
  Yes this is just a strongly worded letter. You might think that's useless. Not sure what you expect them to do differently though?

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