almost two weeks after the death of the 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine, allegedly shot down by a missile, inspection work on the site still can not be done by heavy fighting between Ukraine's pro-Russian army and rebels in the area where the accident occurred.
The renewed fighting between the factions led to Australia and Holland to cancel planned to send missions to the area.
After the emergency meeting called by the cabinet, the Dutch government leader, Mark Rutte said it would be too risky to send a military mission to assist in the research tasks.
At first, the Dutch government, which suffered the largest number of victims (194) with the fall flight MH17, had proposed to support the work of forensic through a military mission. However, for now this participation was suspended.
The Ukrainian government acknowledged that its troops are trying to conquer the crash, controlled by pro-Russian, in order to ensure safe access to international experts, a spokesman for the National Security Council in Kiev said.
Yesterday morning, the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, said he reached an agreement with Ukrainian separatists to allow access, as agreed with the separatist leader Borodai Alexander, whom Razak persuaded to hand over the black boxes of the plane .
"I hope that this agreement will ensure security on the ground for researchers to do their work," he said.
However, the results of the agreement have not yet been seen on the ground.
Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, had announced the posting of the first non-armed contingent of federal police, but the raid was also suspended.
Meanwhile, yesterday the military forces of Ukraine moved to the suburbs of Horlikva, a key town north of Donetsk, in an attempt to regain control of this bastion controlled for months by pro-Russian rebels.
The breakthrough comes as Ukrainian troops seem to have gained strength to regain control of territory held by rebels. But Russia also appears to be more involved in the fighting, while the United States and Ukraine accuse Moscow to deliver heavy weaponry to insurgents.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry rejected those accusations and said the United States seeks to make "a smear campaign against Russia in which increasingly resorting to outright lies."
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