A team of Dutch and Australian experts has finally reached the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine. <br /><br />It’s the first time in almost a week that experts have been able to reach the site due to fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels.<br /><br />The OSCE security and rights organisation said they had used a new route to access the sit and the team was able to pass through both Ukrainian and rebel checkpoints.<br /><br />Alexander Hug, the Deputy head of the OSCE mission in Ukraine said:“We reached the site shortly before two o’clock, stayed there until shortly after three o’clock and then returned back the same way we came without any incident, left rebel-held territory into government-held territory and then shortly before Donetsk returned back into rebel-held territory”.<br /><br />Flight MH17 was shot down two weeks ago close to the border with Russia killing 298 people.<br /><br />Ukraine has intensified its attacks on rebel-held territory since the crash. Fighting has left more than 1,000 dead, including hundreds of civilians.
