More than 8 years after Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine and 2.5 years in a Dutch court, a verdict has been delivered on those accused of the mass murder. To recap: the commercial flight left Amsterdam on 17 July 2014 en route to Malaysia. It was travelling over the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed forces were fighting the government for control, when it was hit by what investigators say was a Russian-made missile, downing the plane. All 298 people onboard – including 38 Aussies – were killed. Prosecutors said the 4 men on trial – Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko and Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov – supplied the missile, but they don’t know who fired it. Despite being absent from the courtroom, the first 3 men named have been sentenced to life in prison for murder and intentionally causing an aircraft to crash, while Pulatov was acquitted. Prosecutors say they can be arrested “as soon as their whereabouts are confirmed”.