Ukraine releases MH17 plane crash ‘key suspect’

Dutch investigators are concerned they won't get to quiz Vladimir Tsemakh

Wreckage from Flight MH17
Ukrainian State Emergency Service employees search for bodies in the wreckage at the crash site
(Image credit: Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

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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