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International experts have not gone to the Malaysian Boeing crash site because of non-stop clashes bordering the area, the press office of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" (DPR) said.

“Experts are in Donetsk for now. The Ukrainian army not ceasing fire,” the “DPR” press office told Interfax on July 31.

“As of now, only Ukrainian army impedes this process,” the press office said.

The first group of international experts has managed to get to the
Malaysian Boeing 777 crash site in the Donetsk region, Australian
Foreign Minister Julia Bishop said earlier on July 31. “Great news as
Dutch-Aussie advance-party of experts have just made it on to MH17 crash
site. At last work begins to bring our people home,” Bishop tweeted.

Prior to this, experts of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) special monitoring mission said that
together with experts from Australia and the Netherlands they were on
their way to the Boeing crash site taking a new route.

The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 plane en route from Amsterdam to
Kuala Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk region on July 17 and the 298 people
on board were killed.