DONETSK. July 21 (Interfax) - Three Dutch aviation safety experts have been working at the air crash site near Torez since Monday morning. The arrival of 12 experts from Malaysia is being delayed because of the hostilities intensified by the Ukrainian government forces in and around Donetsk, said Oleksandr Borodai, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"Twelve people are currently on their way from Kharkiv. But there is fighting in Yasinovata and northern parts of Donetsk, i.e. the places on their itineraries. For this reason their arrival is being delayed," Borodai told a press conference in Donetsk on Monday.
The DPR prime minister also called "a strange coincidence" the fact that the hostilities began in Donetsk precisely on the day of the experts' arrival. He also expressed his surprise that international commission representatives were sent to Donbas without a convoy.
"They were sent to the hostility zone without security, without a convoy. Simply with some hired driver. This is strange," Borodai said.
The Rossiya One television channel said earlier on Monday that several Dutch experts accompanied by OSCE monitors had arrived in the town of Torez and started inspecting the air crash victims' remains in refrigerator cars and will later travel to the crash site.