MOSCOW – Emergency officials in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Malaysian experts are expected to start a joint investigation of the MH17 crash site on April 14, militants said.
“Our joint trip with the Malaysian experts is scheduled for April 17. We do not know whether the criminal experts are planning to travel to the plane crash site on their own earlier. According to the latest information, they were preparing a working schedule and requested our joint trip on April 17,” the spokesperson said, according to the Donetsk News Agency.
Earlier the Donetsk News Agency reported that Malaysian criminal experts had arrived in Donbas on April 13 to examine the crash site of the Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines. The agency also said that Dutch representatives had arrived in the DPR to search for the remains of the MH17 passengers and their belongings.
Western media reported earlier that Malaysia would send a group of investigators to work at the MH17 crash site.
The MH17 flight operated by Malaysia Airlines, from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board were killed. An international inquiry is under way. A main theory of the crash mentioned by the media is a missile attack.
