#MH17 : Malaysian Team Gets Access to Boeing 777 MAS Crash Site

A three-person team from Malaysia gets access to crash site. Malaysia Airlines offers financial assistance of US$5000 (RM15,870) for each passenger's family.
"This financial assistance will not be ofset against the final compensation nor affect the families' legal rights to claim," it says in a statement.

Datuk Seri Najib inform that the two MH17 black boxes to be handed over to Malaysian team in Donetsk at about 9 pm tonight Ukraine time

Ukraine releases recordings of intercepted call on 'black boxes'. Donetsk group says black boxes in their keep

The Ukraine government has ordered its military to stop any military activity within a 40km radius of the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said the order would take effect immediately in the effort to ease tension between its military and the rebels.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenuk says that all 277 bodies recovered will be sent to Amsterdam, but armed separatists are not allowing the train to move. He says that 251 of the bodies have been loaded into refrigerated train cars at the Torez train station 15 kilometres away from the crash site in Grabovo, Donetsk.
“Controlled and coordinated from Russia, they (separatists) are not letting us send the bodies to Amsterdam,” the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre quotes him as saying.

An overhead view shows the devastation left by the MH17 crash

Discussions with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s special ambassador Ertugul Apakan.

Poroshenko (right, sitting) said it was part of the government's effort to expedite efforts for the joint international investigation team to have safe access to the site.