Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said on Monday that rescuers have recovered 272 bodies from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
A Malaysian flight with 280 passengers and 15 crew members on board crashed Thursday in Ukraine near the Russian border.
Malaysia has announced the establishment of a joint investigation team on the MH17 incident, which comprises officials from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Britain and the United States.
The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution to condemn the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger plane in Ukraine, demand armed groups allow access to the crash site, and call on states in the region to cooperate with an investigation.
Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then had them loaded onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said Sunday.
World leaders are demanding an inquiry over the downing of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, an effort that experts said can help calm the crisis.
Tragedy of a Malaysia Airlines plane, which crashed in Ukraine, brought back memories of relatives of Chinese passengers on missing Flight MH370 from the same airline.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ceasefire in Ukraine at her annual summer press conference on Friday.
The World Heath Organization (WHO) on Friday confirmed that one of its spokespersons, Glenn Thomas, died in the Malaysian airlines MH17 crash.
The Ukrainian authorities should be blamed for allowing a commercial jet to fly over a war-stricken territory, the Russian State Duma, or the lower house of parliament, said Friday.
Insurance on the Malaysian airliner brought down over Ukraine is likely to pay out relatively quickly if the cause of the crash is determined, but observers say settling insurance for the loss of 298 lives and other liability could be complex and lengthy.
The issue of whether to avoid flying over conflict zones has come into sharp focus since the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on Thursday with 298 people in board.