Rebels Call For Truce To Allow MH17 Probe

Pro-Russian separatists have said they will grant monitors safe access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site if Kiev agrees a truce.

Andrei Purgin, deputy PM of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said his troops would "guarantee the safety of international experts on the scene" as soon as a deal with Ukraine was struck on a ceasefire.

If the offer was rejected by Kiev, he warned it would suggest the government was made up of "dangerous lunatics, bloodthirsty maniacs (who are) dangerous not only for the residents of Donbass but also for the world community".

Rebels have prevented investigators from accessing the plane crash site

The move came as the Ukrainian army said "mortar attacks from the direction of Russia aimed at Ukrainian posts" were recorded just after midnight and again at 2am on Sunday.

Ukraine and separatists also reached a preliminary agreement to remove victims' decaying bodies from the site.

Kiev's emergency officials said 196 bodies have been recovered so far, amid separate reports rebels had taken them all to an undisclosed location, while some had been transferred in refrigerator rail wagons towards Llovaisk, near the border with Russia.

World leaders have piled pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the armed Moscow-backed rebels from preventing investigators from fully accessing the MH17 crash site.

A message left among floral tributes outside the Dutch Embassy in Kiev

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Europe and the West must "fundamentally change our approach" unless Mr Putin alters his stance, amid claims Russia-backed rebels were involved.

The prospect of further sanctions against Russia was raised as public anger and concerns grow over claims of looting and evidence being compromised.

The US has condemned the lack of security at the scene as an "affront to all those who lost loved ones and to the dignity the victims deserve", while Malaysia has attacked the failure to preserve evidence as a "betrayal of the lives lost".

The Ukraine government has accused pro-Russian separatists of removing 38 bodies from the crash scene and debris, and attempting to destroy evidence.

International monitors and journalists are confronted by armed separatists

Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the government was "angry" and "furious" over allegations bodies were being dragged around the site.

Critically, investigators have been unable to speak to anyone about the whereabouts of the jet's two black box voice and data recorders.

Ukraine has said they have not been handed over to Kiev and it has no information about them, while the rebels have denied shooting down the plane, finding the black boxes, and rubbished claims they have removed bodies from the crash site.

All 298 passengers including 10 Britons and 80 children were killed when flight MH17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was brought down near Grabovo, Donetsk, where Ukrainian forces have been battling separatists.

Kiev and Moscow have blamed each other for the disaster.

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