Ukrainian forces are threatening to resume their offensive against pro-Russian rebels after a one-day halt, as international experts attempt to begin a stalled investigation at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The international probe into the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine inched forward on Thursday as experts risked attack to reach the site for the first time in nearly a week after Kiev announced a halt to its military offensive.
A small team of Dutch and Australian experts accompanied by international monitors accessed the vast site of the Malaysia Airlines jet after days of fierce fighting between government forces and rebels had stopped them reaching the area.
Dutch police heading up the international probe said the situation around the crash site remained perilous despite the small team managing to access the scene.
'The security situation is still very unstable,' Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the mission to repatriate the remains of the victims, told journalists in Kiev.
'We are not absolutely sure if we can reach the crash site with the whole team of experts in the near future, but we are more hopeful than we were yesterday,' he said.
In a sign of the continuing insecurity, an AFP team following some minutes behind the convoy heard loud blasts just a few kilometres away from the site and saw black smoke rising from a village close to where some of the plane wreckage is lying.
Ukraine's military had earlier announced a 'day of quiet' across the entire east after a plea from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to halt fighting around the crash site, where the remains of some of the 298 victims still lie in the sun two weeks after the jet was shot down over rebel territory.
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/08/01/ukraine-fighting-may-start-up-again.htmlşthash.hG5QR5Hl.dpufUkrainian forces are threatening to resume their offensive against pro-Russian rebels after a one-day halt, as international experts attempt to begin a stalled investigation at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The international probe into the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine inched forward on Thursday as experts risked attack to reach the site for the first time in nearly a week after Kiev announced a halt to its military offensive.
A small team of Dutch and Australian experts accompanied by international monitors accessed the vast site of the Malaysia Airlines jet after days of fierce fighting between government forces and rebels had stopped them reaching the area.
Dutch police heading up the international probe said the situation around the crash site remained perilous despite the small team managing to access the scene.
'The security situation is still very unstable,' Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the mission to repatriate the remains of the victims, told journalists in Kiev.
'We are not absolutely sure if we can reach the crash site with the whole team of experts in the near future, but we are more hopeful than we were yesterday,' he said.
In a sign of the continuing insecurity, an AFP team following some minutes behind the convoy heard loud blasts just a few kilometres away from the site and saw black smoke rising from a village close to where some of the plane wreckage is lying.
Ukraine's military had earlier announced a 'day of quiet' across the entire east after a plea from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to halt fighting around the crash site, where the remains of some of the 298 victims still lie in the sun two weeks after the jet was shot down over rebel territory.
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/08/01/ukraine-fighting-may-start-up-again.htmlşthash.hG5QR5Hl.dpufUkrainian forces are threatening to resume their offensive against pro-Russian rebels after a one-day halt, as international experts attempt to begin a stalled investigation at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.The international probe into the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine inched forward on Thursday as experts risked attack to reach the site for the first time in nearly a week after Kiev announced a halt to its military offensive.
A small team of Dutch and Australian experts accompanied by international monitors accessed the vast site of the Malaysia Airlines jet after days of fierce fighting between government forces and rebels had stopped them reaching the area.
Dutch police heading up the international probe said the situation around the crash site remained perilous despite the small team managing to access the scene.
'The security situation is still very unstable,' Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the mission to repatriate the remains of the victims, told journalists in Kiev.
'We are not absolutely sure if we can reach the crash site with the whole team of experts in the near future, but we are more hopeful than we were yesterday,' he said.
In a sign of the continuing insecurity, an AFP team following some minutes behind the convoy heard loud blasts just a few kilometres away from the site and saw black smoke rising from a village close to where some of the plane wreckage is lying.
Ukraine's military had earlier announced a 'day of quiet' across the entire east after a plea from UN chief Ban Ki-moon to halt fighting around the crash site, where the remains of some of the 298 victims still lie in the sun two weeks after the jet was shot down over rebel territory.
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