Penny Wong accuses Vladimir Putin of ‘harbouring murderers’ after MH17 verdict

Australian foreign minister says Dutch court that found two Russians and one Ukrainian guilty of downing flight delivered ‘the truth’

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Penny Wong has accused the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, of “harbouring murderers”, warning that the world will not forget a court verdict that Russia and two of its nationals were responsible for the downing of MH17.

The Australian foreign minister made the remarks on Friday after a Dutch court found Russians Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko guilty of bringing down the plane and the murder of everyone onboard.

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