The bodies of the victims of the jet crash in Ukraine will be delivered to the Netherlands on Wednesday morning, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.

We hope that tomorrow [July 23] the first aircraft will bring the remains of the victims to the airport at Eindhoven, he said.

According to Rutte, most of the bodies will be identified quickly, but in some cases it could take weeks or months.

As earlier reported, a Dutch military transport aircraft that is to deliver the remains of the crash victims' bodies to the Netherlands has already arrived in Kharkiv.