KIEV, Ukraine — An international team of prosecutors investigating the downing of a civilian airliner over Ukraine three years ago has decided to try the suspects in a Dutch court, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The group concluded last year that the powerful surface-to-air missile system used to shoot down the airplane — killing all 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 bound for Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, from Amsterdam — came from Russian territory and was returned to Russia after afterward.

That seemed to strongly implicate the Russian government, as it is unlikely that anyone not connected with the military would have been able to deploy the missile launcher, called a Buk or SA-11, from Russia into a neighboring country.

But in making that announcement, the prosecutors, who are from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Belgium, Australia and Ukraine, did not name individual culprits and stopped short of saying Russian soldiers were involved. The group said it had identified about 100 people of interest in the case but did not clarify who would be prosecuted or how.