PARIS, July 29. /ITAR-TASS/. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged Ukrainian authorities to stop combat actions near the Malaysian Boeing crash site.

France Presse news agency reported that the Dutch prime minister had made the statement to this effect on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Dutch and Australian experts have failed to get to the Malaysian airliner’s crash site from the city of Donetsk already for the third day, the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice said on Tuesday. Fierce battles continue on their way to the air crash site 70 kilometres east of the city of Donetsk, the ministry said.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 plane en route from Amsterdam to Kuala-Lumpur crashed in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on July 17 in the area of combat actions between militia and Ukrainian army. All 298 people aboard the plane died in the crash. As many as 194 passengers who make an overwhelming majority of people aboard the airplane were Dutch citizens.