MH17: Last victims may never be recovered, says Dutch Foreign Minister

A file pic of the area where MAS flight MH17 went down in eastern Ukraine - AFP

KIEV: The remains of the last nine victims of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 may never be recovered from the Ukrainian battlefield where their plane was downed four months ago, the Dutch foreign minister said Saturday, as fighting rumbled on in the east of the country.

Foreign Minister Bert Koenders made the grim assessment in the city of Kharkiv, where he attended a memorial service for five more sets of human remains collected from the site of the disaster and flown to The Netherlands.