Tony Abbott calls on ‘Russian dictator’ Vladimir Putin to accept responsibility over Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

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It comes after two Russian men and a Ukrainian separatist were convicted of murder in absentia on Thursday after a Dutch court found they orchestrated the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines flight which killed all on board including 38 Australians in 2014.Offer ends 31 October, 2023“As a result of the verdict, they’re now international fugitives if they ever leave the sanctuary that the Russian dictator is currently providing them,” he told Sky News Australia.Read our statement here: https://t.co/o6fy8hX1mb — Senator Penny Wong (@SenatorWong) November 17, 2022“But, as is well known, instead of accepting any responsibility back then and subsequently he went in to a long rant about Ukrainian provocateurs and the Ukrainian government being fascists and about Ukraine really being part of Russia and not an independent country.“If that means invading other countries, if that means murdering his opponents at home or abroad, he will do it.”Julie Bishop, who was the foreign minister at the time of the explosion, told Sky News Australia on Friday there was still a “long way to go” to ensure the criminals face the consequences of their “heinous crime”.“We must continue to maintain the pressure on Russia to hand over these citizens who have been found guilty,” she told AM Agenda host Laura Jayes."

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