An Australian Federal Police officer (2nd from left) reads Harvey World Travel documents as he walks with a fellow AFP officer (3rd from left) with their Malaysian and Dutch counterparts return from searching the fields for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A woman looks over her cows as one cow stands near a part of the wing of flight MH17 at the crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police officer Brian McDonald (2nd from right) talks with his dutch counterpart Deputy head of the OSCE mission Alexander Hug (3rd from right) before the team starts searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home. Photo: kate geraghty
Pro Russian rebels who provide an escort in and around the MH17 crash site walk down the road towards the convoy of OSCE, AFP and their Dutch counterparts on the outskirts of Rassypnoye, where the Australian and Dutch experts will search for human remains and personal belongings of the passengers who died in the MH17 crash. Rassypnoye. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A Pro Russian rebel aims at a man riding a bicycle along the road that borders the MH17 crash site as the Australian and Dutch teams start searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Our driver Dima stands in the field where he came across a divers watch near the rear fuselage debris from the MH17 plane crash outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Spencer the Dutch search dog drinks after searching the fields for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A group of Pro Russian rebels stand on a road leading to the chicken farm near the MH17 crash site. These rebels have been escorting the OSCE and Australian and Dutch police a part of the way to and from the MH17 crash site. Photo: Kate Geraghty
An Australian Federal Police officer searches for human remains and personal belongings from the MH17 crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro Russian rebels scan the area near the MH17 crash site and talk with locals who are trapped due to fighting in the area surrounding the crash site today. This particular group of rebels escort the OSCE and Australian and Dutch police to and from the MH17 crash site.. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Deputy head of the OSCE mission Alexander Hug (centre) with another OSCE member are escorted to a slag heap by Yuri (left) a pro russian rebel where the international MH17 recovery team will search for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Deputy head of the OSCE mission Alexander Hug (left) with other OSCE members are escorted to a slag heap where the international MH17 recovery team will search for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Galina Gurbych stands infront of her home where a farm worker brought MH17 debris for safe keeping from the field he was working in, near the town of Rassypnoye. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Alexey Vladimirovich 27 brings a piece of MH17 flight debris and a silver necklace to the OSCE team in the Rassypnoe town in the self proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Ukraine. The OSCE, Australian Federal Police and their Dutch and Malaysian counterparts were in Rassypnoe to take possession of any debris from the MH17 plane crash on their last day of the international search. Photo: Kate Geraghty
People stand in the main street in Rassypnoe, also known as the cockpit village, where the MH17 cockpit landed in the crash. The town has been under heavy fire for the past week. Rassypnoe, in the self proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Ukraine. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Deputy head of the OSCE mission Alexander Hug (2nd from right) talks with retired kindergarten teacher Era Pavlovna 76 (right) after handing her a phamphlet giving information on how to return debris and personal belongings of the victims of MH17 crash, in Rassypnoe. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A Ukrainian soldiers around a tank at a checkpoint in Debaltsevo, a town close to the MH17 crash site, East Ukraine. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Members of the international MH17 recovery team run for cover as gunfire breaks out in the streets of Rassypnoe, the so called Cockpit village, forcing the MH17 recovery team to abandon its last spot search, which was to be at the actual cockpit site. Rassypnoe. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sergey Vladimirovich 44 (right) points to Yuri (right) a Pro Russian rebel as he becomes outspoken about the war in Rassypnoe, also known as the cockpit village, where the MH17 cockpit landed in the crash. The town has been under heavy fire for the past week. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro Russian rebel Yuri looks near a slag heap where the International MH17 recovery team search for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
The convoy including the OSCE, Australian Federal Police and their Dutch counterparts making their way to the MH17 crash site to search for human remains in order to bring them home. This was the first full forensic search party to investigate the site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka in the self proclaimed Donetsk Republic, Ukraine. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police officers on a bus about to depart Donetsk heading for Soledar village near Artemovk so that they can be based closer to the MH17 crash site. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Debris of flight MH17 at the crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A teddy bear amongst the debris of flight MH17 at the crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police and their Dutch counterparts have a joint briefing in Soledar before heading to the town of Rassypnoe where they will search for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash.. Photo: Kate Geraghty
OSCE, Australian Federal Police and their Dutch and Malaysian counterparts, start searching near a slag heap for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police and their dutch counterparts searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police and their dutch counterparts searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home. Photo: kate geraghty
Australian Federal Police officers and their Dutch coutnerparts collect human remains from the MH17 crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A Dutch officer searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police and their dutch counterparts searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A section of the wing from flight MH17 at the crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Donetsk People's Republic sniper Eugene Lukovkin aged 30 stands amongst the pilots bags at one of the sites where he witnessed the front section of Malaysian flight MH17 crashing and found the pilots bodies, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police and their dutch counterparts searching at the MH17 crash site for human remains in order to bring them home.. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A man herds his cattle on high ground in Kirovskoye overlooking the MH17 crash site where Ukrainian forces and Pro Russian rebel fighters engage in at leaste 7 different battles. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro Russian rebels negotiate with Deputy head of the OSCE mission Alexander Hug (right) a safe passage for the OSCE, Australian and Dutch police to and from the MH17 crash site near the chicken farm. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police prepare to search the fields for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police officers carry victims personal belongings from the MH17 crash site in the fields outside the village of Grabovka. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Australian Federal Police and their Malaysian and Dutch counterparts have a joint briefing before beginning their search of the fields for human remains of passengers from the MH17 crash, on the outskirts of Rassypnoe Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro Russian rebel Aleksandr (centre) stands infront of the International MH17 recovery team near the town of Rassypnoe, aslo referred to as the cockpit village. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A village woman shows her anguish as OSCE conflict monitors enter Rassypnoe, the so called cockpit village to seek return of wreckage and personal belongings of MH17 victims. . Photo: Kate Geraghty
Yuri, a Pro Russian rebel, stands in the abandoned streets of Rassypnoe known as the Cockpit village, as the Australian, Dutch and Malaysian MH17 recovery team convoy leaves the area for good. The search was over. Rassypnoe in the self promclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Ukraine. Photo: Kate Geraghty
More from MH17
More from MH17
