US intelligence officials said on Tuesday they believe pro-Russian separatists likely shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 "by mistake."
The train with bodies from the disaster area entered Kharkov on Tuesday morning, and preparations are currently going on for the first flight to the Netherlands.
The former Australian defense force official who led the international search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 arrived in Kiev on Monday to lead a 45-member team of inspectors at the MH17 crash site.
A senior separatist leader, Aleksander Borodai, handed over black boxes from an airliner downed over eastern Ukraine to Malaysian experts in the city of Donetsk in the early hours of Tuesday.
A senior separatist leader, Aleksander Borodai, handed over black boxes from an airliner downed over eastern Ukraine to Malaysian experts in the city of Donetsk in the early hours of Tuesday.
Beijing welcomes the just passed UN resolution on the recent crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.
The crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 had strayed 14 km north from its planned route after passing Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said on Monday that rescuers have recovered 272 bodies from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Malaysia has announced the establishment of a joint investigation team on the MH17 incident, which comprises officials from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Britain and the United States.
Some 198 bodies recovered from the Malaysian airliner crash site have been loaded onto refrigerated train carriages bound for a city in eastern Ukraine.
A separatist leader said they were keeping what they presumed were black boxes from MH17 in Donetsk, but they would need experts to confirm it.Special
A government team led by Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Anifah Aman will be departing for Ukraine.