BBC Online :
Dutch experts are heading to the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, officials say.
It follows an agreement between international observers and pro-Russian separatists, the Ukrainian justice ministry says.
Separately, Malaysia says it has struck a deal with the rebels to allow international police at the site.
MH17 crashed on 17 July, killing all 298 people on board. The rebels have been accused of shooting it down.
Russia has suggested the plane could have been shot down by the Ukrainian military – an allegation Ukraine denies.
Investigators have struggled to gain access to the rebel-controlled crash site, despite a truce between Ukrainian troops and separatist forces.
Fighting has continued just 60km (35 miles) away from the crash site near the town of Grabove.
The Dutch authorities say the first of the 298 people killed in the MH17 disaster has been identified, without revealing any details.
A total of 227 bodies have been sent for identification to the Netherlands, which is leading the crash investigation.
The atmosphere around the crash site is tense as a group of 30 Dutch forensic experts make their way there from the rebel-held city of Donetsk, says the BBC’s Tom Burridge.
Rebels have prevented journalists going to the crash site and Ukrainian government forces are said to be nearby, he adds.
A Dutch justice ministry spokesperson has told the BBC that the team’s priority is to bring back the bodies.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed in a statement on Sunday that he had reached an agreement with Ukrainian separatist leader Aleksander Borodai to allow international police access to the site in order to “provide protection for international crash investigators”.
Meanwhile, officials from the Netherlands and Australia, which lost 193 and 28 of their citizens respectively, are awaiting permission from the Ukrainian parliament to allow the deployment of an international police force to secure the crash site.
The US says it believes rebels shot down the passenger jet with a Russian-provided SA-11 Buk surface-to-air missile, probably by mistake.
Russia has frequently denied sending heavy weapons into Ukraine but rebel leaders have given conflicting accounts of whether they had control of a Buk launcher at the time the plane was downed.
