The international community has been accusing the anti-Kiev forces on the ground of mishandling bodies and evidence at the crash site.<\/p>\n
A day earlier a spokesperson from the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR) Aleksandr Borodai, accused the international community of lacking enthusiasm to investigate the plane crash. <\/p>\n
The Dutch foreign minister said his country was “furious” to hear bodies were being “dragged around.” Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott described the crash site in the territory controlled by anti-Kiev forces as “absolutely chaotic.” <\/p>\n
Borodai explained all of the actions undertaken at the site of the crash were dictated by urgent humanitarian need to take care of the decomposing bodies. <\/p>\n
The bodies of 196 MH17 crash victims have been placed inside refrigerated train carriages, according to the leadership of DPR, with international experts still not at the crash scene.<\/p>\n
The DPR once again said it was waiting for the international experts to come and said it guaranteed their security, but wanted the Kiev authorities to agree to a ceasefire in turn, according to statement by DPR\u2019s deputy PM, Andrey Purgin. <\/p>\n
“We declare that we guarantee security of international experts at the site of the tragedy if Kiev agrees to a ceasefire,\u201d the statement reads as cited by RIA Novosti. \u201cWe call on Kiev to immediately sign this agreement with DPR at least for the period of time while experts are going to work at the site of the plane crash.\u201d <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, foreign journalists got to a station where a train with the dead bodies stood. Their tweets from the site made many internet users wonder why journalists were able to make it to the crash scene, but experts could not.<\/p>\n
The carriages at the Torez station were reportedly examined by the OSCE observers, who said there were 196 bodies inside.<\/p>\n
That has not been confirmed by Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor of the OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine, who said his team had actually seen body bags in the train carriages but were unable to count them, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n
Representatives of the special mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine do have access to the crash site of a Malaysian Boeing-777 in eastern Ukraine, a representative of the mission, Michael Bochurkiv, told Itar-Tass on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the U.S. Department of State spokeswoman Jen Psaki expressed concern over the alleged failure of OSCE observers to reach the crash site.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an element of information war against us,\u201d Borodai said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station, noting that \u201cFourteen OSCE observers have been working at the airliner\u2019s crash site already for three days. In fact, on the first day they faced some restrictions in their movement. But we explained this by a very simple fact: we are responsible for their security.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe air disaster area is very big and exceeds more than ten square metres,\u201d Borodai added, noting that \u201cWhen they entered the zone, which is precisely in sight of Ukrainian machine guns, patrolmen stopped them [OSCE observers]. They proposed to them [OSCE observers] not to go there for one simple reason that if they had come under Ukrainian machine gun fire, responsibility would be shouldered on us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: RT\/Itar-Tass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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