Pro-Russian rebels have released bodies from MH17

Pro-Russian rebels have allowed bodies from the Malaysia Airlines plane crash to be taken to the city of Kharkiv.

Malaysia’s PM said the separatists had also agreed to hand over the “black box” flight recorders of flight MH17.

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding access to the crash site. Western nations say the rebels shot down the plane on 17 July, killing all 298 people on board.

Meanwhile, the main rebel-held city of Donetsk has seen heavy clashes.

Eyewitnesses say there is violence near the city’s airport and the railway station.