MH17: Russia wants UN deal on armed forces at crash site

By James Massola and Latika Bourke
July 31 2014 - 3:00am
Alexander Hug, deputy head of the OSCE mission to Ukraine, left, his colleagues and a pro-Russian rebel, second right, examine a map as they try to estimate security conditions around the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky
Alexander Hug, deputy head of the OSCE mission to Ukraine, left, his colleagues and a pro-Russian rebel, second right, examine a map as they try to estimate security conditions around the site of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky

Russia's deputy ambassador to Australia Nikolay Nozdrev says Moscow wants a second United Nations Security Council resolution before armed forces are allowed on the ground to support efforts to retrieve the dead and investigate how Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down.

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