A potentially key witness to the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 has been released by a Ukrainian court.
Video footage shows Vladimir Tsemakh boasting that he commanded an anti-air brigade in separatist-held east Ukraine and concealed evidence of a Buk missile system, the kind Dutch investigators say shot down the Malaysia Airlines jet.
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