CRI听力:Dutch, Australian Experts Reach MH17 Crash Site

An international team of investigators has finally managed to reach the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 for the first time since it crashed two weeks ago in eastern Ukraine.

Investigators had tried several times to reach the crash site, but were cut off by heavy fighting between government troops and the rebels who control the area.

Australian authorities say they believe around 80 bodies are still at the crash site.

Four Dutch and Australian experts, accompanied by European monitors, have managed to reach the area using a new route.

Ertugrul Apakan is the Chief Monitor of the OSCE monitoring mission to Ukraine.

"All parties, you know, were responsive in the manner of international team reach over there, and we count on the arrangements that our team will be able to go there each day, every day, in order to carry out this investigation in the upcoming two or three weeks time."

Russian aviation experts are also in Ukraine, hoping to visit the site.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's deputy prime minister is vowing to keep the current route to the crash site safe.

A new agreement ratified in Ukraine's parliament will allow some 700 people, including international investigators and military personnel, to operate at the crash site.