How A Hunch, A Farmer, And A Scorched Field Led Me To The MH17 Missile-Launch Site
An obscure blogger claimed to have triangulated the general location from a photograph. On a hunch, a fellow journalist and I followed it -- and found the exact spot from which international investigators later concluded that Russia-backed forces fired the Buk missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, killing all 298 people aboard. By Christopher Miller
A Dutch appeals court has postponed a verdict on the ownership of a collection of gold artifacts from Crimea that was on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia seized the peninsula in 2014, saying it needed more information. A Dutch court had ruled, in 2016, to send the treasures to Ukraine -- but four Crimean museums made a joint appeal against it.