MH17: Crash site still unsafe for investigators, says Netherlands


THE HAGUE: The site in eastern Ukraine where Flight MH17 crashed two months ago is still too unsafe for investigators to resume the recovery of victims' remains, Dutch Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said Thursday. 

A ceasefire between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces "is being violated and its existence remains fragile," she said in a statement issued in The Hague. 

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