KIEV, July 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday he had given instructions to invite Russian experts to join a probe into a Malaysian airliner crash in the Donetsk Region in east Ukraine.

Poroshenko said during his visit to the Malaysian embassy in Kiev that immediately after the crash he had invited representatives of the countries whose nationals had been killed in the crash - the Netherlands, Malaysia, Germany, the UK, Australia and the USA - to take part in the accident investigation.

The Ukrainian president also said “he gave instructions to invite a Russian representative to ensure maximum transparency.”

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in the area of combat actions between local militias and Ukrainian governmental troops in east Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Thursday, July 17. All 298 people aboard the plane died in the air crash.

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

“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.