Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence of “international crimes” from the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that Kiev says militants shot down with a missile, killing nearly 300 people.<\/p>\n
Malaysia, whose national airline has been battered by its second major disaster this year, said it was “inhumane” to bar access to the site around the village of Hrabove, near the city of Donetsk, and said Russia was doing its “level best” to help. It defended the use of an air corridor over Ukraine’s war zone.<\/p>\n
“The terrorists, with the help of Russia, are trying to destroy evidence of international crimes,” the Ukrainian government said in a statement. “The terrorists have taken 38 bodies to the morgue in Donetsk,” it said, accusing people with “strong Russian accents” of threatening to conduct autopsies.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s prime minister said armed men barred government experts from collecting evidence and threatened to detain them.<\/p>\n
At Hrabove, one armed man from the separatist forces told Reuters that bodies had been taken away in trucks. Amid reports of looting, militants and local people say they have been doing their best to collect evidence and preserve human remains.<\/p>\n
As the stench of death begins to pervade the area, a Reuters correspondent watched rescue workers carry bodies across the fields and gather remains in black sacks. One local resident said Ukrainian fighter jets had flown over the area earlier. Quite who controls what around the site is unclear. Rebel forces, who have declared a Donetsk People’s Republic in the Russian-speaking east and want union with Moscow, have set up cordons and checkpoints around the area.<\/p>\n The security council in Kiev said staff of the emergencies ministry had found 186 bodies – a little more than half the 298 aboard the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 – and had checked some 18 sq.km (7 square miles) of the scattered 25-sq.km crash site. But the workers were not free to conduct a normal investigation.<\/p>\n “The fighters have let the Emergencies Ministry workers in there but they are not allowing them to take anything from the area,” security council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. “The fighters are taking away all that has been found.”<\/p>\n He added that he had no information on the black box flight recorders, both of which separatists have said have been found.<\/p>\n A party of observers from Europe’s OSCE security body, based in Donetsk, visited the site on Friday and found access limited by what it said were hostile armed men, some of them drunk.<\/p>\n Following a demand from the United Nations Security Council for an independent investigation, both sides in the conflict have offered ceasefires and cooperation but the situation on the ground remains confused and Ukrainian officials said there were several clashes overnight in areas near the city of Luhansk.<\/p>\n Russia ensuring safe route to crash site<\/strong><\/p>\n Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said on Saturday he believed Russia was doing its best to ensure a safe route to the site of the downed Flight MH17 and appealed to the world to help ensure bodies can be retrieved quickly.<\/p>\n Liow, who is flying to Ukraine later in the day, also said he believed the plane had been shot down.<\/p>\n “They are trying their level best to assist Malaysia to ensure we have a safe site,” Liow told reporters.<\/p>\n While stopping short of blaming Russia for Thursday’s crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, in which 298 people died, U.S. President Barack Obama accused Moscow of failing to stop the violence that made it possible to shoot down the plane.<\/p>\n The United States has said the jetliner was hit by a surface-to-air missile fired from rebel territory.<\/p>\n Liow again defended the plane’s route said and said it never strayed into restricted air space.<\/p>\n “It flew at an altitude set and deemed safe by local air traffic control and never strayed to restricted air space,” he said.<\/p>\n Malaysia Airlines director of operations Izham Ismail said all airlines mad their own threat analysis.<\/p>\n “I believe we did not make a mistake,” he said. – worldbulletin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence of “international crimes” from the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"bo_wartawan":[],"bo_jenis":[],"class_list":["post-24481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c48-news"],"better_featured_image":{"id":24482,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":625,"height":424,"file":"2014\/07\/malaysia-ucak-plane1.jpg","filesize":117959,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":24481,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/malaysia-ucak-plane1.jpg"},"yoast_head":"\n
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