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| DONETSK, Ukraine — International experts examining the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Saturday found the remains of victims overlooked by local emergency personnel who first searched the debris two weeks ago. | DONETSK, Ukraine — International experts examining the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Saturday found the remains of victims overlooked by local emergency personnel who first searched the debris two weeks ago. |
| The team of Dutch and Australian police officers and forensic experts, which gained access to the site for only the second time since the crash, has divided the 14-square-mile site into small grids and intends to painstakingly search each one. | |
| A spokeswoman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which negotiated access to the crash site for the team with the Ukrainian separatists and the government, confirmed that searchers found human remains on Saturday. | A spokeswoman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which negotiated access to the crash site for the team with the Ukrainian separatists and the government, confirmed that searchers found human remains on Saturday. |
| They also recovered remains on Friday, their first full day at the site after fighting between rebels and government forces blocked access for nearly a week. International monitors estimate that about 80 bodies remain unaccounted for. Representatives of the Dutch-led recovery mission have declined to elaborate on what they are searching for, or how the bodies were passed over in the initial search. | They also recovered remains on Friday, their first full day at the site after fighting between rebels and government forces blocked access for nearly a week. International monitors estimate that about 80 bodies remain unaccounted for. Representatives of the Dutch-led recovery mission have declined to elaborate on what they are searching for, or how the bodies were passed over in the initial search. |
| About 80 experts reached the site on Saturday, accompanied by monitors from the security organization. The Dutch and Australian team is now based in government-held territory, having relocated on Friday from the separatist capital, Donetsk, after the Ukrainian military asserted it had surrounded the city. The crash site remains under rebel control. | |
| The fighting has now reached the outskirts of Donetsk, where separatists have dug trenches into parks and the landscaped medians of major streets. On Saturday, artillery shells fell in at least one outlying district. | The fighting has now reached the outskirts of Donetsk, where separatists have dug trenches into parks and the landscaped medians of major streets. On Saturday, artillery shells fell in at least one outlying district. |
| Also on Saturday, the Ukrainian military reported that a separatist unit attacked a border guard post near the town of Vasilevka, about 35 miles south of Donetsk, by advancing across the border from Russia. The Ukrainian border guard service said the attackers were beaten back and retreated to Russia. | |
| The border service said another crossing point at Dolzhansk, in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, came under artillery bombardment from Russian territory. Soldiers at the location said they saw a drone aircraft, used to help pinpoint artillery fire, flying overhead. It arrived from the Russian side of the border, according to the border service. The Russian government has denied firing into Ukraine from its territory. | The border service said another crossing point at Dolzhansk, in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, came under artillery bombardment from Russian territory. Soldiers at the location said they saw a drone aircraft, used to help pinpoint artillery fire, flying overhead. It arrived from the Russian side of the border, according to the border service. The Russian government has denied firing into Ukraine from its territory. |
| In Russia, a spokesman for the border department of the Federal Security Service said artillery shells from Ukraine had exploded in the country’s Rostov region. Craters from nine rounds were found in a field near the village of Mityakinskaya, a spokesman for the border department, Vasily Malayev, told the Interfax news agency. | |
| The rounds appear to have been fired overnight Friday, he said, and no one was injured. |