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A batch of documents has been published showing that more than 170 servicemen of Russia’s air defense units were deployed near the border with Ukraine in Rostov region on the day when a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet flight MH17 was shot down with a Buk missile, with all 298 passengers and crew being killed in the crash.

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