A Dutch team is to return to the MH17 crash site in war-torn Ukraine to collect more remains of the 298 people killed when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing crashed in July, officials say.
"A small team including defence ministry employees will return to Kharkiv in Ukraine at the end of next week," the Dutch security and justice ministry said in a statement on Friday.
"If the security situation permits the team will also return to the crash site to collect a small amount of human remains," the ministry said.
Most of those on board the Boeing 777 when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17 were Dutch, and just three of the dead have yet to be identified by forensics experts in the Netherlands.
Authorities announced in early December that some fragments of all 38 Australians who died on MH17 had at last been formally identified.
Kiev and the West have claimed that the airliner was shot down in the conflict-torn area by separatist fighters using a BUK surface-to-air missile supplied by Russia. Moscow denies the charges, pointing the finger at Kiev.
Dutch experts last year repatriated parts of the plane to be reconstructed as part of a probe into what caused the crash.
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