
Chief of Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Alexander Hug walks with separatists at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez.
"We heard indications there's fighting going on," said Alexander Hug, deputy head for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission in Ukraine.
"The situation on the ground appears to be unsafe...we therefore decided to deploy tomorrow morning," he added.
Hug expressed concerns that the fighting near the village of Grabovo in Ukraine's Donetsk region will "most likely affect crash site."
Forensic experts arrived in Ukraine to recover the remains of passengers that have not yet been returned to the Netherlands for identification.
The Malaysian jet was carrying 298 people, the majority of them Dutch citizens, when it crashed on July 17. Coffins with the remains of 227 victims have already been delivered to the Netherlands.
Although the fighting is disrupting the investigation, the Netherlands, Australia, and Malaysia have ruled out sending an international armed mission to secure the crash site.
"We concluded there was a real risk that an international mission would immediately be involved in the conflict in Ukraine," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.














Comment: At least some in Ireland still know how to make a stand. This new mural has appeared on the Falls Road in West Belfast: