Mahathir questioned the objectivity of the international investigation and said that Russia was a scapegoat for the MH17 incident.

　　Reference message networkReported on June 21Foreign media said that Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir said on the 20th that Russia was becoming a scapegoat for the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. He questioned the objectivity of the investigation into the air crash in 2014.

　　According to Reuters’s report on June 20th, an international investigation team set up to investigate the plane crash said on the 19th that three Russians and one Ukrainian will face murder charges for the 298 people killed after the plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

　　Mahathir told reporters at a government event: "We are very dissatisfied because from the beginning it was a political issue of how to accuse Russia of causing trouble."

　　"Even before their investigation, they already said that Russia did it. Now they say there is evidence. It is difficult for us to accept this. "

　　According to Agence France-Presse reported on June 19th, international investigators accused three Russians and a Ukrainian of murder on the 19th for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. They were the first people facing trial for this disaster five years ago.

　　The trial of these four people who are connected with military and intelligence agencies will begin in the Netherlands in March 2020, but they may be tried in absentia, because neither Russia nor Ukraine will extradite their citizens abroad.

　　The report mentioned that flight MH17 was shot down by a missile over the area controlled by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, when the flight was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

　　According to the investigation team led by the Netherlands, international arrest warrants have been issued against Russian citizens Igor Girgin, Sergei Doubinsky and Oleg Platov and Ukrainian Leonid Harcenco, who are suspected of holding posts in the separatist "Donetsk People’s Republic".

　　Dutch prosecutor Fred Westbeck said that the four men would be responsible for transporting the Beech surface-to-air missile system from Russia to eastern Ukraine, "even though they didn’t press the button themselves".

　　According to the report, Russia firmly denied that it was related to the air crash and complained that it was excluded from the investigation.

　　In a statement on its website, the Russian Foreign Ministry said: "The Russian side has once again been accused absolutely without foundation, which is aimed at tarnishing Russia’s image in the eyes of the international community."

　　In 2018, Russia insisted that the relevant missile was launched by Ukrainian troops, and said that the missile was transported to Ukraine during the Soviet era.

　　On 19th, in Niwohain, the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutor Fred Westbeck released an investigation report, pointing out that the four people on the screen were responsible for the MH17 incident. (AFP)