There were 30 Australians on board when the Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur went down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

Last November, a Dutch court found that Russia had 'overall control' over the separatist forces and had supplied the BUK missile system which was used by militias to shoot down the plane.

Ukraine has asked the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Russia to halt alleged discrimination against the Tatar ethnic group in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014.

The International Court of Justice has set four days of hearings on June 6, 8, 12 and 14 to hear both sides in the case.

International prosecutors say they found 'strong indications' President Vladimir Putin approved the Russian missile system which shot down the plane but that there was not enough evidence for a criminal conviction.

The Russian foreign ministry accuses the joint investigation team set up to establish who was responsible of being 'politicised'.

Russia says it cannot accept the results of the investigation since it took no part in the process.

Russia has denied any involvement and dismissed last year's court verdict as 'scandalous' and politically motivated.

But there is no realistic prospect of prosecuting him or others, investigators say.

Investigators could identify either the crew that manned the missile system, or higher-up Russian military or political officials who approved its transfer in and out of Ukraine.

The findings are expected to deal with their research into who actually fired the missile that shot down the plane over eastern Ukraine in 2014, and who originally supplied the Russian-made projectile.

Oleg Pulatov was found not guilty by a Dutch court on Nov 17 while Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko were convicted and sentenced to life in absentia.