MH17: Two Australian investigators spend less than two hours at crash site

By Paul McGeough
Updated August 1 2014 - 11:08am, first published 8:52am
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 least seven different battles.   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 least seven different battles. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro-Russian rebel sniper 'Angel' 43 looks through the scope of his gun at a checkpoint on the outskirts Shakhtersk and aims over the shoulder of locals.  Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro-Russian rebel sniper 'Angel' 43 looks through the scope of his gun at a checkpoint on the outskirts Shakhtersk and aims over the shoulder of locals. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro-Russian rebel sniper 'Angel' on road outside Shakhtersk. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Pro-Russian rebel sniper 'Angel' on road outside Shakhtersk. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Orlova-Ivanivka Ukraine: Hours of pain-staking negotiations with Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels pared the time that the first Australian investigators – just two of them – could spend at the MH17 crash site to just 85 minutes.

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