The Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister said his country had done everything to make flights safe ahead of the MH17 air disaster.

Speaking in Kiev on Tuesday following the report by the Dutch Safety Board into the crash, Hennadiy Zubko said Ukraine had done everything according to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recommendations.

Dutch investigators concluded that a Buk missile, launched from rebel-held Ukraine, ripped the cockpit from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July last year.

Zubko said Ukraine had no information about Buk missile systems and that his country had carried out a thorough and transparent investigation into the crash.

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Integration, Olena Zerkal, said her country now wanted to form a tribunal to find out who was responsible for firing the missile that brought down flight MH17.

The Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister said his country had done everything to make flights safe ahead of the MH17 air disaster.

Speaking in Kiev on Tuesday following the report by the Dutch Safety Board into the crash, Hennadiy Zubko said Ukraine had done everything according to International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recommendations.

Dutch investigators concluded that a Buk missile, launched from rebel-held Ukraine, ripped the cockpit from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July last year.

Zubko said Ukraine had no information about Buk missile systems and that his country had carried out a thorough and transparent investigation into the crash.

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Integration, Olena Zerkal, said her country now wanted to form a tribunal to find out who was responsible for firing the missile that brought down flight MH17.

Kiev - 13 October 2015

1. Wide of Ukrainian officials arriving at news conference to present their report on MH17 crash

2. Wide of participants

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Henadiy Zubko, Ukrainian Deputy Prime:

"Ukraine has shown that we did everything according to the recommendations (by the International Civil Aviation Organisation) which we could do to make flights safe. We had no information about this kind of weaponry (Buk missile system). We had no information about instructors who may own such kinds of weaponry."

4. Close-up of screen showing graphic reconstruction of MH17 being hit by missile

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Henadiy Zubko, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister:

"Ukraine carried out a thorough and transparent investigation, and today a supporting technical report by the Netherlands showed that act happened due to a terrorist attack: by Russian weaponry, Russian operation and the territory controlled by Russia-

controlled mercenaries. The question of safety moved to the question of security because of the fact of a foreign invasion."

6. Wide of press conference

7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Henadiy Zubko, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister:

"All ICAO recommendations were followed. Thirty-three air crash disasters have happened over conflict areas in the world and nothing has changed. Ukraine adhered to all recommendations. Ukraine closed the corridor, step-by-step, until 9,750 metres in altitude. The same recommendations are used now for flights over Syria."

8. Cutaway of cameras

9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olena Zerkal, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Integration:

"As for us, it's very important to provide a mechanism for responsibility. We are looking to pass the jurisdiction of guilt to one of the joint investigation group countries. We are also discussing how to make a hybrid tribunal."

10. Wide of end of briefing

International observers said on Sunday that 169 bodies of those killed in the Malaysian Airline MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine have been removed from the crash site and loaded into refrigerated trains nearby.

Michael Bociurkiw, the spokesman of the Organisation of Security and Corporation (OSCE) mission to Ukraine, the organisation in charge of investigating the crash, said the train cars were expected to be taken to Ukrainian - controlled territories such as Kharkiv, where they could be processed.

"Today was quite a significant development in the sense that we were able to, under very good security, visit the village of Torez, near the crash site. There, we went to the railway station and at the railway station there were several cars, three or four which were refrigerated. We were told these cars hold victims of the MH17 crash," he told reporters gathered in Kiev, by phone.

According to Bociurkiw, the body bags had been numbered by pro-Russian rebels, who told him they loaded 169 bodies into the train.

The OSCE team, however, did not enter the train cars to investigate because they didn't have safety equipment to wear.

Walking through the crash site while speaking over the phone to journalists in Kiev, Bociurkiw suggested that some bodies might never be found.

"This is an area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporised, not only bodies but also parts. The heat must have been absolutely intense," he said.

The Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson Andriy Lysenko said 196 bodies had been recovered and the search area was expanded.

Rebels said the bodies recovered from the crash site would remain in refrigerated train cars at a station in the rebel-held town of Torez, 15 kilometres (9 miles) away, until the arrival of an international aviation delegation.

They also said they have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and would hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

Ukraine and the separatists accuse each other of firing a surface-to-air missile Thursday at Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur some 33,000 feet (10,000 metres) above the battlefields of

eastern Ukraine.

Both deny shooting down the plane. All those onboard the flight - 283 passengers and 15 crew - were killed.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of news conference

2. Cutaway of journalists

3. Close up of screen showing picture of Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) special monitoring mission to Ukraine

4. STILL OF Bociurkiw on screen, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone)

"Okay, well, today was quite a significant development in the sense that we were able to, under very good security, visit the village of Torez, near the crash site. There, we went to the railway station and at the railway station there were several cars, three or four which were refrigerated. We were told these cars hold victims of the MH17 crash."

5. Close up of sign reading (English) "Ukraine Crisis media centre"

6. Cutaway of journalists

7. STILL OF Bociurkiw, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone)

"Right. Okay so we were told there are 169 - one-six-nine (bodies). Because of the conditions of the train, I mean you need professional protective equipment to go in there, and the stench was absolutely overwhelming. I don't want to be too gruesome but it is a very, very difficult scene to watch. We were told that, for the time being, those cars will be stationary. And that they were wondering when experts will be arriving to start processing the bodies. But I think the kind of thinking is that the cars should be taken to Ukrainian-controlled territories such as Kharkiv and they can be processed there."

8. Cutaway of cameraman

9. Wide of news conference

10. STILL OF Bociurkiw, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone)

"We're looking at the field where the engines have come down. This is an area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporised, not only bodies but also parts. The heat must have been absolutely intense."

11. Andriy Lysenko, Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson, speaking

12. Cutaway cameras

13. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson:

"The bodies of 196 people have been found and the search operation committee has expanded the search area from 25 to 34 square kilometres."

14. Cutaway of cameramen

15. Cutaway of journalists

16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Spokesperson:

"All the bodies that have been directly under the sun have started to decompose. It is necessary to collect everything as fast as possible and remove them because it is becoming a danger to the civilian population of the area."

17. Cutaway of cameraman

18. Wide of news conference

Australian and Dutch diplomats joined forces to promote a plan for a UN team to secure the crash scene of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, which has been controlled by pro-Russian seperatists.

Australia's foreign minister Julie Bishop and her Dutch counterpart Frans Timmermans met with Ukraine's foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kiev on Thursday.

Addressing the media after the meeting Klimkin said an agreement had been reached, and now the top priority was to ensure "full access to the crash site... the transparent and effective investigation, and of course to recover all the possible remnants."

All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - most of them Dutch citizens - were killed when the plane was downed on July 17.

US officials say the Boeing 777 was probably shot down by a missile, most likely by accident.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of (left to right) Australia's foreign minister Julie Bishop, Netherland's foreign minister Frans Timmermans and Ukraine's foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin

2. Various of meeting

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Frans Timmermans, Netherland's foreign minister:

"I know that you will do everything you can to make that (independent investigation) possible. And rest assured that we from our side will do everything we can to assist you. And frankly I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart to do us the honour of asking us to lead the investigation."

4. Wide of meeting

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Bishop, Australia's foreign minister:

"The international community is outraged that this crash could occur in the circumstances that it did and that it was not treated as an airline crash site nor as a crime site and so the degradation of the site, the contamination of the evidence and the disrespect shown to the bodies was too much for the citizens of our country to bear."

6. Wide of meeting

7. Various of Klimkin at meeting

8. Klimkin at news conference

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pavlo Klimkin, Ukraine's foreign minister:

"The respective aviation authorities of Ukraine and the Netherlands have signed the respective agreement (about cooperating in the investigation) a couple of hours ago. And our key priority at the moment, our absolute priority, our common priority is to ensure the full access to the crash site, is to ensure the transparent and effective investigation and of course to recover all the possible remnants at the crash site."

10. Cameras

11. Various exteriors of Ukrainian foreign ministry

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai on Sunday met a group of experts from his country who travelled to Kiev to participate in the joint international investigation into the cause of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash.

Speaking after the meeting in the Ukraine capital, the minister said it was "imperative" to resolve the issue of access to the crash site and the remains of the victims, and to ensure the safety of the investigative team.

Rebels in eastern Ukraine on Sunday took control of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and refused to give international investigators full access to the crash site.

They said that recovered bodies would remain in four refrigerated train cars in the rebel-held town of Torez, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the crash site, until the arrival of an international aviation delegation.

AP TELEVISION

1. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai shakes hands with delegation of experts from Malaysia

2. Wide of meeting of working group

3. Delegation members

4. Close-up of expert

5. Minister during meeting

6. Minister Liow Tiong Lai walking towards media

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"As we know the government... Ukraine government has actually managed to recover the bodies. It's all in the freezer in the train right now. And it's supposed to from train, it's supposed to move and come to Kiev any time. But in view that it has been stopped by the certain quarters, and so it is imperative that we resolve this issue."

8. Minister and journalists

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"The Ukrainian government has informed the joint international investigation team that the crash site is under full control of the separatist's group. Thus the Ukrainian government has stated that it has been unable to establish the safe corridor to the crash site for the international team. The Ukrainian government has said it cannot guarantee the safety of the international team in and around the crash site."

10. Group of experts looking at map of Ukraine

11. Close of map with finger pointing crash site

12. Low view of Malaysian expert team standing around map

13. Reverse view of Malaysian experts standing in group

14. Malaysian experts starting to walk

The head of the Ukrainian task force for the investigation into the MH17 crash said on Tuesday that the country is ready to help investigators return to the crash site.

"We plan to discuss opportunities for such a mission with OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) participation," Volodymyr Groysman added.

A preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine.

The report stopped short of saying the Boeing 777 was shot down by a missile, but its findings appear to point to that conclusion.

MH17 suddenly plunged out of the sky on July 17 over territory held by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and head of the government taskforce for the MH17 crash investigation, walking into news conference

2. Mid shot journalists during the news conference

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"I want to confirm that Ukraine didn't use such a weapon (that could damage or shoot a plane down). Moreover today's report confirms that the plane crashed from the air as a result of an explosion and was damaged by many elements. That's why our preliminary version we talked about earlier has become more obvious today."

4. Cutaway of journalists during news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"The main task for the investigation group is to come to the crash site again as was planned before, and to continue all necessary actions. We discussed the ways how it is possible to do this. I can confirm the complete support of this plan from the Ukrainian side. We plan to discuss opportunities for such a mission with OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) participation."

6. Mid of camera screen

7. Wide of Groysman speaking at news conference

The chief monitor of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, said on Tuesday that the organisation aims to reach the MH17 crash site in the next 48 hours.

"We are working if possible for tomorrow, within one or two days, to be there. We are coordinating with all parties on the ground", said Ertugrul Apakan.

According to Ukrainian authorities, the site is under control of pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian officials can't guarantee the safety of investigators.

"From the Ukrainian side there's 100 percent cooperation and understanding of the fact that immediate action (on the crash site) is necessary, but we are permanently facing interference (from rebels)," Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine said on Tuesday.

A delegation of international experts and OSCE monitors was forced to abandon a trip to the debris field on Monday due to heavy fighting in the area.

Fighting also caused them to cancel a trip to the site on Sunday.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down on 17 July as it flew from Amsterdam towards Kuala Lumpur.

All 298 people aboard died.

The US and Ukrainian governments say it was shot down by a missile fired from territory held by armed pro-Russian separatists, probably by mistake.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of news conference with Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Head of the government task force for MH17 crash investigation, and Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine:

"The international task force, we are working if possible for tomorrow, within one or two days, to be there. We are coordinating with all parties on the ground. And be sure that Netherlands, Australia, OSCE, the Ukrainian side,Ukrainian authorities and all parties concerned have to have a common perception and coordination among themselves in order to enable the international task force to be there"

3. Wide of speakers

4. Wide of media

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Head of the government task force for MH17 crash investigation:

"We have to do everything possible and impossible to not allow the provocation of those territories that are under control of militants to happen. From the Ukrainian side there's 100 percent cooperation and understanding of the fact that immediate action (on the crash site) is necessary, but we are permanently facing interference (from rebels)."

6. Cameramen

An international team of investigators on Thursday managed to reach the crash site of the Malaysia Airline Flight 17 for the first time since it was brought down by a missile two weeks ago, as fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine.

Clashes along routes to the wreckage site between government troops and pro-Russian separatist rebels had kept the delegation from reaching the area to retrieve bodies that have been lying in open fields where midsummer temperatures have hovered around 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) for the last several weeks.

Ukraine's deputy prime minister vowed to maintain a route leading to the crash site safe, so it can continue to be used to access the embattled region.

Volodymyr Groysman also said an agreement ratified in parliament would allow some 700 people, including international investigators and military personnel, to operate on the crash site.

The plane was shot down on July 17, killing all 298 passengers and crew, including 43 Malaysians and 195 Dutch.

AP TELEVISION

1. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (right) and Chief Monitor of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ertugrul Apakan, arriving at news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine:

"All parties, you know, were responsive in the manner of international team reach over there, and we count on the arrangements that our team will be able to go there each day, every day, in order to carry out this investigation in the upcoming two or three weeks time."

3. Journalists at news conference

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine:

"It was SMM (OSCE Special Mission to Ukraine) team, as well as Netherlands and Australian teams were there. I also note that the Malaysian delegation has being in touch with us. They want to be there as soon as possible. This is my information, thank you."

5. Apakan and Groysman at podium

6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Head of the government task force for MH17 crash investigation:

"I want to underline that today, parliament has ratified the agreements, that were signed on with the permission of the president, about the investigations and the access for the military mission on this territory. This means that according to these two treaties up to 700 people can visit this territory (crash site) and perform investigations, including military ones (investigations.) Up to 250 people from this amount are Australian representatives."

7. Cameras at news conference

8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Head of the government task force for MH17 crash investigation:

"I want to inform you that today, on the president's behalf, the meeting of the (Russia - Ukraine - OSCE) contact group took place in Minsk. And I think it is reasonable to inform you about several questions that were raised there. Within the framework of the working contact group it was decided that the route, that was checked by the OSCE, Dutch and Australian partners, will be kept free from fighting or any military action by the rebels. This decision was approved within the three-way contact group."

9. Cameras at news conference

Ukraine's chief military prosecutor said on Monday they had detained a man suspected in the attempted murder of a Ukrainian investigator.

According to media reports, Olexander Ruvin, was shot in November last year, but survived the attempt on his life.

Ruvin was involved in the investigation of the downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Anatoliy Matios told a media briefing in Kiev that there was evidence to suggest foreign involvement in the attempted murder.

Ukraine's chief military prosecutor said on Monday they had detained a man suspected in the attempted murder of a Ukrainian investigator.

According to media reports, Olexander Ruvin, was shot in November last year, but survived the attempt on his life.

Ruvin was involved in the investigation of the downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Anatoliy Matios told a media briefing in Kiev that there was evidence to suggest foreign involvement in the attempted murder.

Kiev -­ 11 April 2016

1. Wide of Ukraine's chief military prosecutor Anatoliy Matios during briefing

2. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Anatoliy Matios, Ukraine's chief military prosecutor:

"The Department of the Criminal Investigations of the National Police and the Special Group of Security Services of Ukraine held operational-investigative actions and searches in a few cities today. As a result the suspect - who was rightly suspected in the attempted murder of the Director of the Kiev Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, Olexander Grygorovych Ruvin - was detained."

3. Cutaway of cameramen

4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Anatoliy Matios, Ukraine's chief military prosecutor:

"Evidence obtained in criminal proceedings show that this offense was committed on the order of a person who is unidentified as of this moment. The aim was to stop or to remove expert research and lead the group of Ukrainian experts in the investigation the crashed aircraft Boeing 777, belonging to Malaysian Airlines, flight MH17, which was on route from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia."

5. Wide of briefing

6. Mid of phone screen

7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Anatoliy Matios, Ukraine's chief military prosecutor:

"The chief expert (Ruvin) was unable to continue research for more than six months. He needed treatment and needed complicated surgical operations abroad as a result of three bullet injuries. After his return to Ukraine an attempted attack on his person, to be more accurate, on the car which was usually used by Olexander Grygorovych Ruvin, was carried out again."

9. Mid of Matios

10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Anatoliy Matios, Ukraine's chief military prosecutor:

"It has been confirmed by an investigation that aforementioned organised criminal groups, which include criminals from Crimea and the Donetsk region, have close relations with criminals from the Russian Federation. According to one of the versions of the investigation - and I would like to emphasise this is just one of the versions, based on information obtained from repeated phone calls with neighbouring countries - an order for this murder was made from abroad."

11. Various exteriors of General Prosecutor's Office

Ukraine blamed on Sunday pro-Russia rebels for stalling the recovery mission of the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed last month in eastern Ukraine.

Andriy Lysenko, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council spokesperson, said that rebels had prohibited the use of an unmanned drone at the crash site, operated by OSCE (The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) monitors in Ukraine.

"The use of the unmanned drone would give an opportunity to quickly inspect the field and overlook the place from a wider plan, as well as find new evidence. It can also find mines and detect the location of the militia," Lysenko said.

"Also, the drone could prove that the artillery fire was launched by terrorists," he added.

The work of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitors and group of the Dutch and Australian experts at the crash site has been postponed for days due to heavy fighting between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian Army.

Lysenko said that OSCE team had to stop their work on Saturday because of heavy gunfire about two kilometres (1.2 miles) away from the crash site.

This came after the international team of investigators were allowed on Thursday through a checkpoint at the village of Rozsypne leading to the crash site of Flight MH17 to get a first look at where it was brought down by a missile two weeks ago.

Thursday's drive took the convoy of investigators and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) officials from the rebel-held city of Donetsk through the town of Debaltseve, which was earlier this week retaken by the government, and later back into rebel territory.

The OSCE mission will be launched in full speed on Monday, with over five teams working on the site, according to Lysenko.

It has been estimated that up to 80 bodies - out of 288 passengers on the downed MH17 flight - are still at the site.

AP TELEVISION

1. Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman at news conference

2. Lysenko speaking

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman:

"The Australian experts were not allowed to use an unmanned drone to inspect the site, as OSCE experts told us in their statement. Later on, the mission representatives were forced to stop their work, as Alexander Hug (Deputy Chief monitor of OSCE Special Mission to Ukraine) said, the work could not go on because of artillery fire which was carried out by the terrorists about two kilometres (1.2 miles) away from the crash site."

4. Journalist asking question

5. Lysenko behind camera screen

6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman:

"The ban of using the unmanned drone, imposed by the terrorists, shows that rebels are not interested in an objective investigation. The use of the unmanned drone would give an opportunity to quickly inspect the field and overlook the place from a wider plan, as well as find new evidence. It can also find mines and detect the location of the militia. Also, the drone could prove that the artillery fire was launched by terrorists."

7. Lysenko speaking next to map

8. Close up of map showing fighting areas

9. News conference

Rebels shot down a Ukrainian MIG-29 aircraft as it flew over the Enakievo region on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday.

"The pilot did all he could to lead the falling plane away from residential areas and afterwards catapulted," said Ukrainian security spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

"He is alive, now the search operation continues," Lysenko added.

Lysenko claimed that the rebels had also violated international laws by opening fire on a helicopter which was transporting their wounded men.

"According to all international law shooting at such kind of helicopters is forbidden. They are marked with special signs which are impossible to miss. The crew had to make a forced emergency landing," he said.

Lysenko said that three people injured in that incident were receiving treatment.

The insurgency in mostly Russian-speaking in eastern Ukraine flared up in April following Moscow's annexation of Crimea in response to the ouster of Ukraine's former pro-Russian president.

Ukraine and Western countries have accused Moscow of backing the mutiny with weapons and soldiers.

The West also accused Russia of most likely providing the insurgents with surface-to-air missiles that may have been used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over rebel-held territory on July 17, killing all 298 people on board.

The Russian government has repeatedly denied all those charges.

AP TELEVISION

1. Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesperson entering room

2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesperson:

"Yesterday in the Enakievo region, rebels shot down a MIG -29 plane. The pilot did all he could to lead the falling plane away from residential areas and afterwards catapulted. He is alive, now the search operation continues."

3. Wide of news conference

4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesperson:

"Yesterday at 18:40 (1640 GMT) terrorists opened fire at a sanitary helicopter MI-8, which was transporting the injured from the ATO (anti terrorist operation) zone. According to all international law, shooting at that kind of helicopter is forbidden. They are marked with special signs which are impossible to miss. The crew had to make a forced emergency landing. Three pilots are injured. At the moment they are at a medical centre controlled by the ATO forces"

5. News conference

6. Journalist asking a question

7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesperson:

"We are not shooting on Donetsk. We are liberating it. The residential areas are being shot at by the terrorists from their positions."

8. Mid of Lysenko, seen through camera screen

9. Wide of Lysenko leaving

The Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief on Saturday claimed that the Buk M1 missile launcher that was allegedly used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine was operated by Russian citizens.

"Rebels can not operate the highly sophisticated and high technique missile launcher Buk M1. To operate Buk M1 you need to have military education and to be well trained," Vitaly Nayda said at a briefing in the Ukrainian Capital, Kiev.

"We know for sure that the team was Russian, they were Russian citizens operating Buk M1 and they came from the territory of the Russian federation together with the missile launcher."

Nayda went on to claim that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has evidence to show that three Buk 1 missile systems had been removed from Ukraine after the shooting down of the plane - supposedly to remove evidence from pro-Russia separatist held areas.

"Early in the morning, 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. (local time), 18th of July. 2 a.m. there were two Buk M1s going directly to Russia. And at 4 a.m. there were three heavy trucks, one was empty, one had a Buk M1 and one was with the operational car that helps to operate Buk M1."

Speaking to journalists after the briefing he continued by saying that the Ukrainian Security Service could not confirm who gave the order to remove the missile systems - but alleged that the information indicated that the order came from Russia.

AP Television has no independent way of proving or disproving the claims.

AP TELEVISION

1. Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief, speaking at briefing

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief:

"Rebels can not operate the really sophisticated and high technique missile launch Buk M1. To operate Buk M1 you need to have military education and to be well trained. We know for sure that the team was Russian, they were Russian citizens operating Buk M1 and they came from the territory of Russian Federation together with the missile launcher."

3. Cutaway press centre logo

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief:

"Early in the morning, 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. (local time), 18th of July. 2 a.m. there were two Buk M1s going directly to Russia. And at 4 a.m. there were three heavy trucks, one was empty, one had a Buk M1 and one was with the operational car that helps to operate Buk M1."

5. Wide of Nayda

6. Cutaway of journalists

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief (answering question on who gave the order to move missile launchers over border to Russia):

"This intelligence we can't confirm right the direct authority that gave the order. We think either GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) or FSB (Russian security services) - that's it."

8. Pan of press centre logo

The Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief on Saturday claimed that the Buk M1 missile launcher that was allegedly used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine was operated by Russian citizens.

"Rebels can not operate the highly sophisticated and high technique missile launcher Buk M1. To operate Buk M1 you need to have military education and to be well trained," Vitaly Nayda said at a briefing in the Ukrainian Capital, Kiev.

"We know for sure that the team was Russian, they were Russian citizens operating Buk M1 and they came from the territory of the Russian federation together with the missile launcher."

Nayda went on to claim that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has evidence to show that three Buk 1 missile systems had been removed from Ukraine after the shooting down of the plane - supposedly to remove evidence from pro-Russia separatist held areas.

"Early in the morning, 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. (local time), 18th of July. 2 a.m. there were two Buk M1s going directly to Russia. And at 4 a.m. there were three heavy trucks, one was empty, one had a Buk M1 and one was with the operational car that helps to operate Buk M1."

Speaking to journalists after the briefing he continued by saying that the Ukrainian Security Service could not confirm who gave the order to remove the missile systems - but alleged that the information indicated that the order came from Russia.

AP Television has no independent way of proving or disproving the claims.

AP TELEVISION

1. Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief, speaking at briefing

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief:

"Rebels can not operate the really sophisticated and high technique missile launch Buk M1. To operate Buk M1 you need to have military education and to be well trained. We know for sure that the team was Russian, they were Russian citizens operating Buk M1 and they came from the territory of Russian Federation together with the missile launcher."

3. Cutaway press centre logo

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief:

"Early in the morning, 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. (local time), 18th of July. 2 a.m. there were two Buk M1s going directly to Russia. And at 4 a.m. there were three heavy trucks, one was empty, one had a Buk M1 and one was with the operational car that helps to operate Buk M1."

5. Wide of Nayda

6. Cutaway of journalists

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vitaly Nayda, Ukrainian Security Service Counterintelligence Chief (answering question on who gave the order to move missile launchers over border to Russia):

"This intelligence we can't confirm right the direct authority that gave the order. We think either GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) or FSB (Russian security services) - that's it."

8. Pan of press centre logo

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1. US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland arriving at news conference

2. Journalists

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State:

"We are cooperating intensively with the Dutch who will have the lead into the investigation (into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17). We understand that they are making progress in that investigation but I won't get ahead of them. There are discussions obviously in New York and elsewhere about the right venue for finding international justice and ensuring those who are responsible to brought to justice."

4. Nuland talking to press

5. Cameras

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State:

"The United States was pleased the we were able, with our allies and with China, and with the European Union, to cooperate with the Russia in reaching this historic agreement with Iran. But we don't judge that Russia did this as a favour to the United States or anybody else. It did it because its own interests were served by ensuring that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon. At the same time as you know, we continue to have very tough, difficult conversations with Russia about Ukraine."

7. News conference

STORYLINE:

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on Thursday that the US is "cooperating intensively" with the Netherlands with regard to the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.

Friday marks one year since the Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, and there has been little official word of progress in determining who or what was responsible.

Nuland was speaking on a visit to the Ukrainian capital Kiev where earlier in the day she watched as the nation's parliament made the first step toward devolving more powers to separatist-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine by sending the bill on constitutional reform for review at the country's highest court.

Nuland also commented on Russia's role in reaching the nuclear deal with Iran.

She said she believed Russia's own interests were served by "ensuring that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon".

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk confirmed on Monday that his government has officially asked the Netherlands to lead the investigation into the Malaysian Airlines flight which was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine killing all 298 on board.

Yatsenyuk reiterated on Monday that those responsible for downing Flight MH17 would be held accountable for their actions.

At a tense news conference in the Ukraine capital Kiev, Yatsenyuk accused Russia of providing the missile system that brought the plane down, and helping the rebels to operate the system.

Ukrainian officials say the plane was shot down by a mobile missile battery from a rebel-controlled area in eastern Ukraine.

They said the BUK rocket launcher was supplied from Russia and operated by Russian personnel.

Yatsenyuk called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to realise that "enough is enough", as it had gone beyond a conflict between their two countries to an "international and global conflict."

Pressure has been growing on Putin, who the US and others say has backed and armed the rebels, to rein in the insurgents in Ukraine and allow a full-scale investigation.

Russia has denied backing the separatists.

Yatsenyuk also confirmed that 272 bodies have now been recovered, 251 of which have been loaded into refrigerated trains in Torez, a town near the crash site.

A team of international monitors, including three from the Dutch National Forensic Investigations Team, were to visit both Torez and the crash site later Monday.

AP TELEVISION

1. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk walking up to podium

2. Cameraman

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"Ukrainian government is ready to transfer an international investigation to our Dutch friends."

4. Camera operators at news conference

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"Those who committed this international crime, those responsible will be hold accountable and together with the entire international community, we will bring to justice everyone responsible."

6. Reporter taking notes

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"We got a number of statements of intelligence agencies and respective governments, clearly saying that they do share the opinion that MH17 was shot down by the missile and it is crystal clear that any Russian, drunken guerilla cannot manage this system."

8. Reporter

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"They can support these guerillas. But they have to stop and President Putin is to realise that enough is enough. This is not a conflict just between Ukraine and Russia. This is an international and global conflict."

10. News conference

11. SOUNDBITE: (English), Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

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"Ukrainian authorities discovered 272 bodies, 251 of which are already loaded in the train refrigerators. We sent two trains, four cars of which are right now located in Torez city. These bloody guerillas do not allow the train to leave the area."

12. News conference

Scuffles broke out in the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday after a lawmaker blamed the Ukrainian authorities for failing to adopt a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and accused them of running a war against the Ukrainian people.

The accusations were made by lawmaker Mykola Levchenko from the Party of Regions, which was close to Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych.

Lawmaker Ihor Miroshychenko from the Svoboda Party started to push Levchenko, before other lawmakers joined in the fight.

The incident took place as parliament discussed Malaysian airlines flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine last week.

The parliamentary session started with a minute of silence to remember the victims.

Oleksandr Turchynov, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, accused Russia of committing "acts of military aggression against Ukraine" by providing weapons to separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine and sending troops to the border.

"Russia is continuing an escalation of armed opposition in these (Donetsk and Luhansk) regions," said Andriy Parubiy, the Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council.

"Right now, around 41-thousand Russian Federation armed forces servicemen are located on the eastern and northern Ukrainian borders and Crimea's borders," he added.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine began in mid-April after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimean Peninsula a month earlier.

AP TELEVISION

1. Lawmakers holding a minute of silence to commemorate those who died on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17

2. Lawmakers talking to the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament Oleksandr Turchynov

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Turchynov, Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament:

"According to information provided by competent authorities, this act of terrorism has been executed by militants who are conducting actions against Ukraine in the Donetsk region and who used the surface to air missile system Buk, which is operated by Russian armed forces."

4. Lawmakers listening to Turchynov's speech

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Turchynov, Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament:

"The weapons provided illegally to the Ukrainian territory by Russian authorities and the Russian armed forces and mercenaries taking part in the military action against Ukraine represent acts of military aggression against Ukraine and it is an international terrorist activity, according to evidence, similar to Al-Qaeda and others."

6. Various of lawmakers during session

7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Parubiy, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council:

"Russia is continuing an escalation of armed opposition in these (Donetsk and Luhansk) regions. Moreover, Russia is doing a lot to move its armed forces to Ukraine like they are peacekeepers. During last week, near the border with Ukraine, Russian armed forces were changing their deployment and increased their numbers. Right now, around 41-thousand Russian Federation armed forces servicemen are located on the eastern and northern Ukrainian borders and Crimea's borders."

8. Mid of lawmakers

9. Lawmaker Ihor Miroshychenko (long hair) from the Svoboda political party starting to push Party of Regions lawmaker Mykola Levchenko, who blamed the Ukrainian authorities for failing to adopt a ceasefire that could solve the crisis in eastern Ukraine and accused them of running a war against the Ukrainian people.

10. Various of lawmakers pushing each other

11. Lawmakers taking their seats

12. Police guarding the parliament building

13. Exterior of Verkhovna Rada (parliament)

Ukraine's parliament on Thursday voted not to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Yatsenyuk said he was resigning last week after two parties supporting him left the coalition, and parliament balked at passing laws he said were essential to fund the war against pro-Russian separatists.

The vote keeps Ukraine on course for fulfilling its obligations under its bailout loans with the International Monetary Fund and ensures added funding for the military.

Yatsenyuk thanked the parliament and said his government "has not declared default and never will".

Olexander Turchynov, Parliamentary chairman, said another law was passed ratifying and agreement between Kiev and Canberra to send Australian experts to investigate the circumstances of the Malaysian Airlines passenger plane crash in eastern Ukraine.

The plane was shot down on July 17, killing all 298 passengers and crew, including 43 Malaysians and 195 Dutch.

Some bodies have yet to be recovered at the crash site, which has been inaccessible to investigators for days due to fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russia separatists.

AP TELEVISION

1. Ukrainian lawmakers in parliament session

2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian President:

"Today the Ukrainian parliament confirmed its readiness for teamwork (with the government). I'm confident and I call parliament to now use its vote to show trust in the government."

3. Lawmakers voting whether to accept Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's resignation

4. Screen showing vote results

5. Lawmakers in session

6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"Ukraine has not declared default and never will. Thank you for your work and hope to meet in Verkhovna Rada soon."

5. Lawmakers applauding

6. Yatsenyuk walking towards Parliament Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov and Poroshenko; shaking hands

7. Yatsenyuk shaking hands with other lawmaker

8. Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko talking

9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Turchynov, Parliamentary chairman:

"Today we accepted a law ratifying the agreement between Ukraine and Australia about sending Australian experts to Ukraine for the investigation of the Malaysian Airlines plane crash."

10. Lawmakers leaving session

11. Exterior of Ukrainian parliament building

The chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, claimed on Friday that three Russian servicemen crossed the border into Ukraine with a heavy missile launcher and fired at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew miles above the country's battlefield.

Valentyn Nalyvaichenko told reporters the SBU has been able to identify "a place on the border where a Buk (a heavy missile launcher) crossed into the territory of Ukraine before the attack" from records of conversations between pro-Russia separatists.

He added that those conversations "clearly confirmed" that the crew of a Buk missile system "entered from the territory of Russia and were Russian servicemen."

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the National Security and Defence Council said Ukrainian forces did not carry out any actions aimed at "hitting targets in the air".

Andriy Lysenko added that "an inventory of aircraft systems and missile launchers located on Ukrainian territory concluded that all missiles are in stock. The Ukrainian aviation did not work in the area of the air crash and it generally does not work at such altitude".

The Ukrainian government in Kiev, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting and the Russia government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all deny shooting the passenger plane down. Moscow also denies backing the rebels.

The attack on Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations - including holiday-makers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia.

Andriy Sybiga, a Ukraine Foreign Ministry representative said 181 bodies had been found as of Friday afternoon.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko during news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Head of Security Service of Ukraine:

"Two things have been ascertained (from records of separatists' conversations). The first one is that we showed a place on the border where a Buk (a heavy missile launcher) crossed into the territory of Ukraine before the attack. And terrorists clearly confirmed that the crew of this Buk entered from the territory of Russia and were Russian servicemen."

3. Journalists

4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Head of Security Service of Ukraine:

"It is most important for us to get from the Russian side the names of all three crew members - Russian servicemen - who directly managed a Buk anti-aircraft missile system and directly pressed the trigger and launched a missile against a civilian passenger aircraft. We emphasise this is a key detail in the Ukrainian, and now international, investigation."

5. Wide of Nalyvaichenko presenting evidence of what he says is Russian implication in air crash on the screen

6. Mid of journalists

7. Wide of Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman arriving at news conference

8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman:

"We would like to emphasise that the (Ukrainian) anti-terrorist operation forces did not execute any actions aimed at hitting targets in the air. An inventory of aircraft systems and missile launchers located on Ukrainian territory concluded that all missiles are in stock. The Ukrainian aviation did not work in the area of the air crash and it generally does not work at such altitude."

9. Cutaway of cameramen

10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Sybiga, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry representative:

"As of today, 181 bodies have been detected. Indeed terrorists (separatists) do resist, but in spite of this the rescue services are working at the (crash) site."

11. Various of journalists

The spokesperson of the OSCE's (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) special monitoring mission to Ukraine said on Saturday that a number of people have arrived to remove bodies at the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 crash site in eastern Ukraine.

Michael Bociurkiw, speaking over the phone from the crash site, said that "so called experts" have arrived to the site and "were moving the bodies at least to the side of the road."

"As far as we can tell, no bodies have been moved beyond the crash site," Bociurkiw said, adding that he cannot verify who the "experts" were - Ukrainian government personnel or pro-Russia separatists who control the area around the crash site.

Earlier the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council spokesperson Andriy Lysenko had said that Ukrainian government emergency ministry workers had gained access to the area but were not allowed to remove any evidence from the site.

Bociurkiw said that the OSCE monitors were not at the site to investigate but to "observe and collect the facts."

"A lot of the debris is in fairly large pieces. So that has not been moved, it seems to have been preserved," he said.

AP TELEVISION

1. Close of logo, reading: (English) "Ukrainian Crisis Media Center"

2. Mid of news conference, AUDIO (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesperson for OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone from crash site):

"There is a lot of journalists around. There are a lot of security, people with heavy arms. We are being watched very carefully. The new development today was that there are what they describe as experts, so-called experts here. They brought body bags with them and they're moving the bodies at least to the side of the road. As far as we can tell, no bodies have been moved beyond the crash site."

3. Cameraman

4. STILL PHOTO of Bociurkiw, AUDIO: (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesperson for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone):

(Question: So just to make it clear, they do not allow you to cross this line basically, to start a full-scale investigation, right?)

"Well, let's be clear. We are not here to do an investigation. We're just here to really observe and collect the facts. And then we share that information daily with our member states of OSCE and then more widely throughout the public appoints and briefings to the media."

5. Reverse view of journalist taking notes on laptop

6. Mid of news conference, AUDIO (English) Michael Bociurkiw, spokesperson for OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine (speaking on phone):

"We are not really in a position to evaluate... or draw any conclusions on whether there has been any looting. The debris itself, we don't... We see no any heavy equipment here. A lot of the debris is in fairly big pieces. So, that has not been moved, it seems to have been preserved."

7. Cameraman during briefing