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Pro-Russian separatists are still keeping custody of about 200 (out of 298) victims of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777's plane crash in Eastern Ukraine.

Kiev officials, but also representatives of the militiamen, say international experts have limited access to the site of the wreckage.

Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners are combing the sprawling crash site in eastern Ukraine, reports AP. 

They are looking for the bodies of the 298 people who were on board of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 which crashed, reportedly hit by a ground-to-air missile Buk.

World in shock as Malaysian plane crashes over Ukraine

KIEV -- None of the 298 passengers and crew of a Malaysian passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine survived, and the world is in shock over the tragedy.

A Malaysia Airlines jet with 295 people on board crashed Thursday in the hostile eastern region of Ukraine, near the Russian border, reports NBC news. 

According to reports, all 280 passengers and 15 crew are dead.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said he could not rule out that the passenger plane had been shot down. 

A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on July 17, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

Kyiv on July 17 accused a Russian air force jet of shooting down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions along the volatile border between the two ex-Soviet states.
      

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russian military staff officers on Monday of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said a newly-developed Russian missile system was being used against government forces.
   

Russia mulling selective strikes in Ukraine

MOSCOW -- Russia is considering the possibility of launching selective attacks against targets in Ukraine after its territory came under attack from Ukraine on Sunday.

Ukraine initiated a phone call from President Petro Poroshenko to his Romanian counterpart Traian Basescu on Saturday, the Romanian presidency informed in a release.

Resurgent Ukrainian forces on July 6 pursued retreating pro-Russian rebels after seizing their symbolic bastion in a morale-boosting win that appeared to dim hopes for a ceasefire in the bloody separatist insurgency.