Poroshenko orders to stop combat actions in 40 km range around crash site

World July 21, 2014, 15:10

KIEV, July 21./ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told reporters when visiting the Malaysian Embassy on Monday that he had ordered the armed forces to stop combat actions in the range of 40 km around the Boeing crash site.

International experts have started studying the circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 tragedy. 

 

A total of 272 bodies have been found at the crash site of a Malaysian passenger airliner in east Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada-appointed Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said.

“According to the latest figures provided by the Ukrainian State Service for Emergency Situations, 272 bodies have been found, of which 251 bodies are in refrigerators at the Torez station,” he said.

 

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