A contact group that met in Minsk on July 31 reached an agreement that the armed insurgents in Donetsk region would hand over railcars containing the belongings of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash to Ukrainian authorities within two days, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman, who leads the Ukrainian government commission, investigating the crash said on Aug. 1.
It was reported earlier that the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in eastern Ukraine met in Minsk on July 31.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all the 298 people
aboard. The victims included 192 nationals of the Netherlands (one of
them also had U.S. citizenship), 44 Malaysia (including 15 crewmembers),
27 Australia, 12 Indonesia, 10 the United Kingdom (one of them also had
South African Republic citizenship), four Germany, four Belgium, three
the Philippines, one Canada, and one New Zealand.
