UN discusses MH17 tribunal proposal from Malaysia, Australia, Ukraine, Belgium and the Netherlands (VIDEO)

Russia says it may veto the proposal to establish criminal culpability

Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine are urging the UN Security Council to establish an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine nearly one year ago. But Moscow is so far refusing to countenance the proposal.

Korupciya.world reports citing  UT

It's almost one year since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17 2014 with 298 passengers on board, two-thirds of them Dutch. It crashed in Ukrainian territory held by Russian-backed separatists.

As that anniversary approaches the Malaysian government has asked the United Nations Security Council to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing the passenger airliner last year in eastern Ukraine.

On July 21, 2014, the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that demanded that those responsible "be held to account and that all states cooperate fully with efforts to establish accountability."

But Russia has so far blocked calls for the establishment of a UN tribunal to try those responsible.

Ukraine and the West suspect that either regular Russian forces or pro-Russian militants downed MH17, perhaps accidently, with a Russian surface to air BUK missile.

Initially Russia claimed a Ukrainian fighter jet had hit the plane but Ukraine's airforce had been completely grounded days before MH17 was downed after a BUK anti-aircraft missile hit a Ukrainian military transport plane — killing all 49 soldiers onboard.

Russia recently changed its story; with Russia's BUK manufacturer admitting it was a Russian-made missile that downed MH17 — but asserting it was fired by the Ukrainian army. It is unclear from Russia's 'investigators' what would have prompted Ukraine to shoot down a civilain airliner as Russia and its proxy army had not deployed an airforce to East Ukraine.

Independent investigators such journalistic group Bellingcat have debunked Russia's far-fetched conspiracy theories by using publicly available sattelite data to prove Moscow doctored sattelite imagery and is using fabricated evidence to blame Ukraine.