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Under international law, the flight recorders of the Malaysian Boeing 777 that crashed in Donetsk region should stay on Ukrainian territory, and their transfer from the country would be unlawful, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported.

“According to all rules of international law… these flight
recorders must remain in the state where this incident occurred, that is
on Ukrainian territory. Accordingly, moving them outside Ukraine is
unlawful,” the director of the ministry’s consular service department,
Andriy Sybiha, said at a briefing on Friday.

As reported, the Malaysian Boeing-777 plane carrying 298 people crashed in Donetsk region on July 17. All of them died.

The plane crashed on a territory controlled by militants, and they do
not allow Ukrainian law enforcers and experts to visit the crash scene.

On Friday, July 18, so-called First Deputy Prime Minister of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Andriy Purhin said that the
flight recorders of the Malaysian plane would be sent to Moscow for
examination.