AFP photo shows a nurse at a Zaporizhzhya field hospital for Ukrainian troops emptying a bucket of blood onto the ground.
The Dutch Justice Ministry says a team of 70 international experts got to work today recovering bodies at the MH17 crash site, our newsroom reports.
"Dutch and Australian experts arrived at the crash site on Friday morning.... The 70 experts will conduct search operations in several places at the crash site," the ministry said.
More than 200 coffins have already been sent back to the Netherlands, whose nationals composed 193 of the 298 dead and which is leading the investigation.
More remains have yet to be recovered amid the intense fighting in the area.
More on the football flap as Russia tries to absorb Crimean squads, from AP. It smells like trouble:
Football clubs from the Crimea region annexed by Russia will play in the Russian leagues this season.
Three clubs will play in the second division south, a third-tier Russian league, the Russian Football Union said in a statement. The move could bring Russia into conflict with UEFA and FIFA.
The three clubs were SKChF Sevastopol, Zhemchuzhina Yalta, and Tavria Simferopol, which shares its name with a former Ukrainian champion club, but is a new entity.
The former Tavria club was renowned as a hotbed of pro-Ukraine sentiment in Crimea, especially among its hardcore supporters.
Our Ukrainian service with more on the statement by ex-President Leonid Kuchma, who was present in Belarus yesterday on Ukraine's behalf for the trilateral talks with Russia and the OSCE, suggesting 20 more of the soldiers detained by separatists during fighting in eastern Ukraine could be released under a deal reached by the so-called contact group.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry says two guardsmen policemen were found shot in the Donetsk region. (I can't get to the link, so unclear to me if these are the same two men reported here.)
No fresh starts here.
Also see our story on the bogus Tefft social-media accounts that have already arisen and/or been shut down: "Sham Twitter Feed Of U.S. 'Ambassador' To Russia Blocked."