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Dutch experts plan to complete the DNA tests on the remains of passengers of the Malaysian Boeing downed over Donbas in summer 2014 by July 1, 2015, the Ukrainian Security Service has reported.

Victims’ relatives receive remains a month later.

“They [the Netherlands] have set the task to complete the DNA tests by July 1 and return the remains to the relatives by Aug. 1,” Vasyl Vovk, the head of the Main Investigative Department of the Ukrainian Security Service, told a briefing in Kyiv on June 3.