SYDNEY (Reuters) -&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;has imposed financial&nbsp;sanctions&nbsp;and travel bans on&nbsp;three&nbsp;men&nbsp;involved in the&nbsp;downing&nbsp;of Malaysia Airlines&nbsp;Flight&nbsp;17 (MH17)&nbsp;over&nbsp;Ukraine in 2014, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday.
MH17&nbsp;was shot down by a Russian BUK missile system as it flew&nbsp;over&nbsp;eastern Ukraine from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew, including 196 Dutch citizens and 38&nbsp;Australian citizens or residents.
In November, a Dutch court convicted two former Russian intelligence agents and a Ukrainian separatist leader in absentia of murder for their role in the incident, and handed them life sentences.
Wong said the&nbsp;sanctions&nbsp;announced Saturday targeted Sergey Dubinskiy and Leonid Kharchenko, two of those convicted by the Dutch court last year.
The third man targeted was Sergey Muchkaev, a colonel with the Russian Armed Forces who commanded the brigade that supplied the missile system responsible for&nbsp;downing&nbsp;the plane, Wong said.
She said&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;had already sanctioned another man convicted&nbsp;over&nbsp;the plane's&nbsp;downing, Igor Girkin, for his involvement in supporting separatism in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
"These&nbsp;sanctions&nbsp;demonstrate the&nbsp;Australian Government&rsquo;s ongoing commitment to hold to account those responsible for the&nbsp;downing&nbsp;of&nbsp;Flight&nbsp;MH17," Wong said in a statement.
"Australia&nbsp;is steadfast in our commitment to seek truth, justice and accountability for the victims of the&nbsp;downing&nbsp;of&nbsp;Flight&nbsp;MH17."
In February,&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;acknowledged a decision by international prosecutors to suspend their probe into&nbsp;MH17&nbsp;after finding "strong indications" Russian President Vladimir Putin approved use of the missile system that shot down the plane.
However, the prosecutors said evidence of Putin's and other Russian officials' involvement was not conclusive enough to lead to a criminal conviction.
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(Reporting by Sam McKeith; Editing by William Mallard)

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