Igor Girkin
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Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, also known by the alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, is a Russian army veteran and former Federal Security Service officer who played a key role in the Russian annexation of Cri
Girkin in 2015
Personality Identification Playing Card of Igor "Strelkov"
Girkin in April 2023 at the funeral of a Russian volunteer and ex-Russian Wikipedia editor, Vadim Sokolov.
Girkin (left) during a military reenactment
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, while fl
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…2024 he was convicted on charges of inciting extremism. Earlier he received a life sentence in absentia in the Netherlands for his role in downing the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Girkin admitted responsibility for sparking the Donbas War in eastern Ukraine when, in April 2014, he led a group of armed Russian militants who seized…
9M-MRD, the aircraft involved, seen in 2011
First arrival of bodies at Eindhoven Airport
Convoy of 40 hearses heading to Hilversum, Netherlands, while other traffic stopped
Dutch and Australian police at the crash site on 3 August 2014