The republic's prosecutors declared readiness
to further provide unconditional assistance to the international investigation.
DONETSK, September 4. /TASS/. Authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic are ready to hand over to the Netherlands the remains of
victims of the MH17 crash near Torez in mid-July 2014, the DPR prosecutors
said.
"Our
personnel collected the remains, honoring the rules of criminal procedure, and
they have been examined. The results showed that some of them may be human
remains," the Donetsk News Agency reported citing the prosecutors.
They are
preparing to make an official address to the Dutch Prosecutor-General on the
handover of remains to the Netherlands. "We officially declare that we
will further provide unconditional assistance to the international
investigation on this," the DPR prosecutors stressed.
The
Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 passenger airliner on a flight from the Dutch
capital of Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur crashed in the
area of hostilities between local militias and Kiev’s government troops in east
Ukraine’s Donetsk region in July 2014. All 298 people aboard the airliner died.
Most of the air crash’s victims were Dutch nationals.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 04-09-2017
