Experts working at MH17 crash site unarmed, says Ukraine's deputy PM

18:34, 01.08.2014 1 min read

International experts working at the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in Donetsk region, are not armed, the head of the state commission of inquiry into the causes of the crash, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman, has said.

"All the experts, who are working at the site, are working there without weapons," Hroisman said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday

At the same time, the deputy PM could not give an exact date of the arrival of an international police mission in Ukraine to assist in the investigation.

Meanwhile, the 101-strong mission of international experts managed to get to the airliner crash site.

According to Hroisman, the mission includes 10 experts of the OSCE, 53 from the Netherlands, and 38 from Australia.