Australia announces sanctions against three people in Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 case

Canberra authorities said the sanctions are against Russian Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, who were found guilty in absentia of murder and other charges last year in the Netherlands after 298 passengers and crew died in the MH17 tragedy.

Russian Armed Forces Colonel Sergei Muchkaev was included in Australian sanctions. He commanded the anti-aircraft brigades that provided the weapons systems that shot down Flight MH17, according to Canberra.

Thirty-eight Australians were on board the Boeing 777, which was traveling between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down, in eastern Ukraine, in July 2014.

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