Deserted apart from separatists. A rubbish dump not an air crash investigation.
From our news desk:
Australia has sent 50 police officers to London in anticipation of deploying them to Ukraine to secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a UN team.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the foreign ministers of Australia and the Netherlands are going to Kyiv on July 24 to seek a memorandum of understanding that will allow the deployment of a multinational police force.
Abbott has also spoken with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin about the need to secure the site.
Up to 39 Australian nationals and residents were among the 298 people killed when the Malaysian airliner was shot down in eastern Ukraine, allegedly by Russia-backed rebels.
Abbot said the multinational police force must be deployed as soon as possible as the remains of many victims remain on the crash site, which is in rebel-controlled territory.
"Peter, calm down, take a breath."
Essentially that clip tells you everything you need to know about the aftermath of MH17.
Russia officially denies Kyiv's claims that it brought down two military planes yesterday:
Russia's Defense Ministry has denied Kyiv's claims that missiles that brought down two Ukrainian military planes may have been fired from Russia.
Ukraine's National Security Council in a statement said that two Su-25 military planes were shot down in the eastern Donetsk region on July 23.
It said the planes were hit by missiles fired from Russian territory.
An unnamed Russian Defense Ministry official cited by Interfax on July 24 said "In an attempt to mislead the public, to distract attention from the Malaysian Boeing 777 catastrophe, the fantasies of Kyiv's authorities deserve inclusion in the Red Book of military aphorisms."
The U.S. State Department has said that, if true, the Ukrainian report "would only be further evidence that Russian-backed separatists are using advanced surface-to-air weaponry" provided by Moscow.