Flight MH17 crashed with 295 people on board, including six British citizensl
This chilling video posted on the social media account of rebel commander Igor Strelkov's appears to show three men celebrating the downing of Flight MH17.
In the video, posted on the vk.com website and titled 'In Tores (sic)downed plane,' one man films a plume of smoke emerging from the horizon behind some houses and talks to his companions.
Flight MH17 was previously said by eyewitnesses to have "exploded" over Eastern Ukraine, after it was reportedly shot down by a ground-to-air missile.
The passenger jet was carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur whenit crashed near the village of Grabovo.
In this video, the first man is heard to say: "Just now the plane was hit."
Second man, in happy voice: "All over, it is already over!First man: it is going down now, somewhere in Progress area."
Second man: "I is over, it is over!First man: We are out now, watching - look at those black spots, these are the parts, flying, and it was a blast.
Third man: "Yes I see."
First man: "Look, look, black smoke, right behind Terrikon, where Progress is."
Third man: "It is now when real work starts."
Second man: "F* plane!"
First man: "Look, look at the smoke!"
Third man: "That was a blast."
First man: "Call him now!"
Second man: "They got it, they hit it! They shoot and hit it!"
Third man, laughing: "It was worth bringing this thing, wasn't it?"
Ukrainian officials say they believe all 280 passengers and 15 crew members died in the crash, which has been blamed on separatist rebels.
However, no group has yet admitted responsibility for bringing the plane down.
Those on board included six British citizens, 154 Dutch passengers, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, four from Germany, four from Belgium, three from the Philippines, and one from Canada.
The rest of the passengers have yet to be identified. All 15 crew members were Malaysian.
Eyewitnesses have spoken of seeing the passenger jet crash , and the devastating aftermath.
Locals told journalist Noah Sneider "everything exploded in the air, fell in pieces, both bodies and (the) plane itself. People thought they were being bombed."
One witness, who gave his name only as Vladimir, said: "I was working in the field on my tractor when I heard the sound of a plane and then a bang and shots. Then I saw the plane hit the ground and break in two. There was thick black smoke."
A separatist rebel from nearby Krasnyi Luch who gave his name only as Sergei said: "From my balcony I saw a plane begin to descend from a great height and then heard two explosions."
He denied the rebels had shot the plane down.
"This could happen only if it was a fighter jet or a surface-to-air missile (that shot it down)," he told Reuters, saying the rebels did not have weapons capable of shooting shoot down a plane at such a height.
An emergency services rescue worker at the scene told how at least 100 bodies have been found at the site so far, and that debris from the wreckage is spread across an area up to about 15km in diameter.
Broken pieces of the wings were marked with blue and red paint - the same colours as the emblem of Malaysia Airlines.
New York Times journalist Sabrina Tavernise said she had come across a scene of "almost unspeakable horror", with many bodies found still belted into their plane seats.
Malaysia Airlines said air traffic controllers lost contact with flight MH17 at 1415 GMT as it flew towards the Russian border. Flight tracking data indicated it was at its cruising altitude of 33,000 feet when it disappeared.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said tonight: "MH-17 is not an incident or catastrophe, it is a terrorist attack."
The disaster comes just four months after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished without trace as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
