• Sabine ten Doesschate (center) and Boudewijn van Eijck (right), lawyers of suspect Oleg Pulatov, sit in the courtroom at the Schiphol Judicial Complex on Tuesday, the second day of the trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, even though the suspects are still at large. | AFP-JIJI
    Sabine ten Doesschate (center) and Boudewijn van Eijck (right), lawyers of suspect Oleg Pulatov, sit in the courtroom at the Schiphol Judicial Complex on Tuesday, the second day of the trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, even though the suspects are still at large. | AFP-JIJI

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AMSTERDAM – Dutch prosecutors accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to sabotage the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine in 2014, saying this cast “a dark shadow” over the impending trial of four suspects in the crash.

Pretrial hearings began in Amsterdam on Monday. Prosecutors say the defendants, three Russians and a Ukrainian, helped arrange the Russian missile system used to shoot down MH17, a civilian aircraft, killing all 298 people on board. Most of the passengers on board the flight were Dutch nationals.

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