KUALA LUMPUR: The Russian embassy here believes justice was not upheld in The Hague District Court verdict on the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014.
In a statement, it said the truth about who downed the aircraft was still to be found.
It said that out of the four suspects, one had been acquitted as he was the only person who had a solicitor.
"The court was under unprecedented political pressure from the Western governments, mass media and the public opinion they formed; and the court ignored the fact that the main responsibility lay with Ukraine that had not closed its airspace above the territory of the military operation carried out by the Ukrainian forces.
"There was no indisputable proof provided by prosecutors while the court was relying on anonymous witnesses, information provided by Ukraine which is an involved and not impartial party, and took the United States' words as a 'proof' with no materials provided," the embassy said today.
It also claimed that the court refused to grant access to some materials that were used against the suspects.
The judges ignored discrepancies in testimonies if they did not match the prosecutors' narrative, said the statement.
"The judges ignored that the missile, which is believed to have been used to down the aircraft, was transferred to Ukraine in 1986, and that Ukraine refused to give the court both their radar information and the records of the air controllers' conversations.
"So strange, the judges refused to consider any other versions of the tragedy, and ignored the materials provided by Russia, including raw data of its radars.
"(We have) no trust in those judges. It was not an impartial justice," the statement added.
MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
The Dutch court convicted three men of murder, in absentia, for their role in the downing and sentenced them to life in prison.
The three men are Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko.