The train carrying the bodies from the MH17 crash site arrived in Kharkiv on Tuesday
A train carrying the remains of victims of the Malaysian airliner which crashed in Ukraine has arrived in the city of Kharkiv, outside rebel territory.
Flight MH17 crashed in an area held by pro-Russia rebels last Thursday, killing all 298 people on board.
Meanwhile, international monitors say parts of the wreckage have been changed and cut into since they first saw them.
Western nations say there is growing evidence the rebels shot down the plane using a missile supplied by Russia.
Russia has suggested Ukrainian government forces are to blame.
Hope for clues
Most of those who died in the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 were Dutch, and the first remains are due to be flown from Kharkiv to the Dutch city of Eindhoven on Wednesday.
Experts have expressed concern that forensic evidence at the crash site could be lost
From there, they will go to a facility in the Dutch city of Hilversum for identification ? a process which could take months, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.
The bodies will be kept in refrigerated rail carriages in Kharkiv while they are being prepared for transport, a spokeswoman for the Dutch forensics team has said.
Countries directly affected by the disaster, such as the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK, have been concerned that the crash site was not properly sealed off, with the risk that valuable evidence could be put at risk.
The plane?s ?black box? flight recorders, which were handed over by rebels to Malaysian officials, will be flown to a laboratory in the UK for analysis, British Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed.
Investigators hope the devices, described as being in good condition, will provide clues about what happened to the plane.
Why are the black boxes being examined in the UK? The British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AIIB) tell me they are one of only two so-called ?replay units? in Europe with the necessary equipment to listen to what has been recorded on the cockpit voice recorder. The other is in France.
They have the kit to analyse in minute detail what can be heard in the last few minutes of flight MH17. The information is incredibly sensitive so investigators gather in a sealed room so that only those that should be listening can listen.
There are four speakers on the walls creating a surround sound ? anything to help the investigators hear exactly what went on. They may even hear any explosion.
The AIIB won?t tell me when they expect to get their hands on the black boxes. But investigators are confident that, depending on the extent of the damage, they can retrieve information from the boxes within 24 hours.
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have been examining the wreckage.
They found that major pieces of the plane had been cut into and that large parts now looked different, a spokesman told the BBC.
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