{{A train carrying the remains of victims of the Malaysian airliner which crashed in Ukraine has arrived in the city of Kharkiv, outside rebel territory.}}
Flight MH17 crashed in an area held by pro-Russia rebels last Thursday, killing all 298 people on board.
Meanwhile, international monitors say parts of the wreckage were changed and cut into since they first saw them.
Western nations say there is growing evidence the rebels shot down the plane using a missile supplied by Russia.
Russia has suggested Ukrainian government forces are to blame.
The remains will now be flown from Kharkiv to the Dutch city of Eindhoven, arriving on Wednesday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.
Most of those who died in the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 were Dutch.
The bodies will then go to a facility in the Dutch city of Hilversum for identification – a process which could take months, Mr Rutte warned.
Countries directly affected by the disaster, such as the Netherlands, Australia, and the UK, have been concerned that the crash site was not properly sealed off, with the risk that valuable evidence could go missing.
A spokesman for the OSCE monitors at the site, Michael Bociurkiw, told the BBC that major pieces of the plane had been cut into and that large parts now looked different.
Five refrigerated freight wagons carrying remains and a passenger carriage marked “Donbass-Moscow” arrived at Kharkiv-Balashovsky train station and are due to be taken to the Malyshev tank factory, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reports.
There, the bodies will be loaded into refrigeration units supplied by the Dutch, the agency says.
BBC
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