The joint team of Australian, Dutch and Malaysian officials were delayed and had only limited access to the crash site overnight because of increased shelling and gunfire nearby.
Australia's special envoy Angus Houston says the situation on the ground is monitored continuously but investigators won't be walking away from their mission.
Human remains and personal items were recovered from the site over the last three days but the Australian Federal Police made no mention of similar finds on the fourth day.
Investigators trying to recover bodies and evidence from the MH17 crash site have been forced to stop work as fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine.
The joint team of Australian, Dutch and Malaysian officials were delayed and had only limited access to the crash site overnight because of increased shelling and gunfire nearby.
Australia's special envoy Angus Houston says the situation on the ground is monitored continuously but investigators won't be walking away from their mission.
Human remains and personal items were recovered from the site over the last three days but the Australian Federal Police made no mention of similar finds on the fourth day.
Police made no mention of similar finds on the fourth day.
Australia's special envoy Angus Houston assured that all fire was directed away from the convoy to the west, even though the sounds of battle were quite close to the investigation team.
He said the situation on the ground was monitored continuously but investigators wouldn't be walking away from their mission.
"We'll stay here as long as that takes, provided the conflict situation allows it," he told ABC radio on Tuesday.
"If there are any doubts we stop, as we did today." The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has been seeking assurances from both sides of the conflict that the
investigation team will be granted safe passage to the crash site.
It's been more than two weeks since the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board including 38 Australian citizens and residents.
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