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Dutch investigators desperately sought a key witness, Volodymyr Tsemach, who allegedly held proof Russian forces shot down MH17—offering him cash and even citizenship to cooperate. When diplomacy failed, Ukrainian intelligence secretly stormed into Russian-occupied territory, kidnapped him, and paid a heavy price: one agent died in a mine blast, another was wounded. Tsemach was brought to Kyiv, then traded in a high-stakes prisoner swap that Ukraine’s president, Zelensky, framed as a peace gesture. The leak came from former Ukrainian intel official Roman Tsjervinsky, who says he was fired after the exchange and now claims he’s being scapegoated—while the real focus should be on those doing the hard work, not political theater.

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