荷蘭發佈馬航MH17空難調查報告
Dutch officials confirmed that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down by a Russian-made missile and criticised Ukraine for not closing its airspace over its eastern regions despite the conflict.
荷蘭官員證實，馬來西亞航空公司(Malaysia Airlines)的MH17航班是被一枚俄羅斯製造的導彈擊落的，同時批評烏克蘭在東部地區發生衝突的情況下沒有關閉空域。
In the first official investigation into the crash that killed 298 people in July last year, the Dutch Safety Board was careful not to apportion blame for the missile, which the US and its allies say was fired from territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed rebels.
在對去年7月造成298人死亡的空難進行的首次官方調查中，荷蘭安全委員會(Dutch Safety Board)謹慎地未對導彈來自哪一方作出評判。美國及其盟友稱，那枚導彈是從由俄羅斯支持的反政府武裝控制的烏克蘭東部地區發射的。
Amid the fallout from the tragedy, which has greatly added to tensions between Moscow and the west, Russia staged its own event hours before the report was released to insist that its allies were not responsible.
俄羅斯在該報告公佈的幾小時前舉行了自己的發佈會，堅稱其盟友對此沒有責任。這場悲劇的衝擊波大大加劇了俄羅斯與西方之間的緊張。
The case remains the subject of a separate Dutch-led criminal probe although in July Russia vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council to set up an international tribunal into the disaster.
該案仍是荷蘭主導的另一項刑事調查的對象，儘管俄羅斯7月份在聯合國安理會(UN Security Council)否決了一項擬對這場災難設立國際法庭的決議案。
The MH17 crash was the most dramatic single event in the war between pro-Russian separatists and government forces in the east of Ukraine. In its wake, western attitudes towards Russia’s involvement in the war hardened and EU and US sanctions imposed on Moscow over its annexation of Crimea were expanded.
在烏克蘭東部親俄分裂分子和政府軍之間進行的這場戰爭中，MH17空難是最具戲劇性的單一事件。發生這場空難後，西方對俄羅斯插手戰爭的態度更加強硬，歐盟和美國就俄羅斯吞併克里米亞的舉動而對其擴大了制裁。
Although the year-long investigation determined that MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made Buk anti-aircraft missile, following earlier media reports including in the Financial Times, it did not seek to establish who fired it because this was not part of its mandate.
儘管在英國《金融時報》等媒體報道後長達一年的調查確定MH17是被俄羅斯製造的山毛櫸(Buk)防空導彈擊落的，但它並未試圖確定是誰發射了導彈，因爲這並不在調查權限之內。
But the board was clear in its criticism of Ukrainian authorities for allowing Malaysia Airlines and 60 other carriers to continue to fly at the time.
但是，該委員會明確批評烏克蘭當局當時允許馬來西亞航空公司及其他60家航空公司繼續飛越東部地區。
“Almost all operators were flying over that area,” said Tjibbe Joustra, who chaired the investigation. “Why? Because no one thought civil aviation was at risk.” In total, 160 flights flew over the same area of Ukraine in the three days leading up to July 17 when MH17 was shot down.
“幾乎所有的航空公司當時都飛越那個區域，”主持該調查的Tjibbe Joustra稱，“爲什麼？因爲當時沒有人認爲民用航空面臨風險。”在7月17日MH17被擊落的前三天裏，總計有160個航班飛越烏克蘭同一區域。
