PARIS, July 15. /TASS/. European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) registered the Netherlands’ lawsuit against Russia over the 2014 crash of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 Boeing over the Ukrainian territory, the Court announced Wednesday.

"The government of the Netherlands filed a lawsuit against Russia to the ECHR," the court said. "The lawsuit was filed over the MH17 crash over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014."

The court explained that the Government of the Netherlands claims that the plane was hit by a missile, launched from the Buk air defense system that allegedly belonged to Russia.

"The Russian Federation repeatedly denied its involvement in the destruction of the plane," the court added.

Russia’s position

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zarkharova said earlier, that The Hague’s decision to turn to the ECHR over the Malaysian Boeing crash is yet another blow to the Russian-Dutch relations.

According to Zakharova," this step will lead only to further politicization and will obstruct the search of the truth."

She noted that the Hague embarked on unilateral blaming of Russia for the MH17 crash from the very beginning.

The events of the last six years that passed after the tragedy revealed that "the Netherlands acted not in compliance with the UN Resolution 2166, but exclusively within the framework of an anti-Russian logic, which defined both technical and criminal investigations."

She noted that "all evidence, proof and expert estimations that contradicted the scenario of July 2014 events over Ukraine, chosen in advance, were brushed off.".