MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax) - The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) are going to arrange for the bodies of the victims of the Malaysian Boeing crash to be sent to Kharkiv, DPR first deputy prime minister Andriy Purgin told Interfax on Monday.
"So far the victims' bodies remain in the railcars of the refrigerator train at the Torez station. They will be sent to Kharkiv only after international experts - Dutch, Malaysian or the Red Cross representatives - arrive at the scene. They are to accompany the train with the bodies, we are ready to add a separate railcar for them," Purgin said.
An agreement was reached earlier to send the bodies to Mariupol, he said. "However, literally at the last moment Kyiv changed its decision and declared Kharkiv instead of Mariupol as a place of assembly for the relatives. The bodies, too, will be delivered there, accordingly," Purgin said.
International experts have started arriving in Donetsk, he added. "This morning our colleagues were to meet the first group of international experts. Gradually, experts started coming over. We broke the shield the Ukrainian side put in their way, we are expecting Red Cross experts to arrive tomorrow," Purgin said.