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A group of Dutch and Australian police who were prevented from traveling from Donetsk to the Malaysian airliner crash site on July 27 will make another attempt to reach the site today.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he hoped the MH17 investigation will respect "the presumption of innocence."
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It seems fighting around the Malaysian crash site is ongoing:
As our news desk reports, Malaysia is seeking a cease-fire near the MH17 crash site:
A Malaysian official says the government is negotiating a cease-fire between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in part of eastern Ukraine so that investigators can access the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.
Khairil Hilmi Mokhtar, the head of Malaysian investigators of the July 17 crash of the airliner, told the Bernama news agency from the Netherlands on July 28 that the cease-fire would include a 35-kilometer radius around the crash site.
Fighting near the site kept Dutch and Australian police from traveling from Donetsk to the crash site on July 27.
Alexander Hug, deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) monitoring mission in Ukraine, told reporters in Donetsk that "the situation on the ground appears to be unsafe" and that he hoped the group of investigators could go to the site on July 28.
A truce had been called days earlier in the immediate area around the site by both Kyiv forces and the separatists, but combat has been raging nearby, with loud explosions heard at regular intervals in the western and northern suburbs of rebel stronghold Donetsk.
Ukrainian forces are also fighting rebels close to the wreckage -- which is near the town of Torez -- and reportedly were within 15-20 kilometers of the Malaysian airliner at some point on July 27.
Investigators want to examine airliner wreckage to determine how it was downed.
Western and Ukrainian officials have said it was shot down with a missile by the insurgents, possibly after mistaking it for a Ukrainian military plane.
Investigators also want to recover personal belongings and some remains of the nearly 300 passengers who were on the flight.
The U.S. State Department on July 27 released satellite images that Washington says support claims rockets have been fired from Russia into Ukraine during the last week.
The State Department released a four-page document that seems to show blast marks from where rockets were launched and crater marks indicating where they landed.
Officials said the images show heavy weapons being fired between July 21 and July 26.
Meanwhile, at least 13 people, including two small children, were reported killed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka on July 27.
Officials from the Donetsk regional administration said only that the deaths were the result of "military actions" in Horlivka, without mentioning which side might have been responsible.
Fighting around Horlivka, a city of some 250,000, was reportedly intense. (dpa, AFP, AP, UNIAN, and ITAR-TASS)