Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Gennady Zubko, said the decision to end the operation to find the remnants of the bodies in the Donetsk Region was decided in a joint meeting with the international commission of inquiry.
"Members of the commission was informed about the phase-finding mission has reached the end. The operation managed to find 297 victims, of which only 295 have been identified victims. The victims were taken to the Netherlands.
"But this is only the termination of the search phase. The investigation of the crash is still ongoing," he said.
Zubco declare the SAR sure to have found all the victims but find it difficult to identify the victims by the state mutilated corpses.
DNA identification process will end on July 1 and all the pieces of the body will be sent to the Netherlands on August 1.
He said more than 900 officers were involved in rescue operations, besides using 24 trucks to transport the aircraft debris out of the scene.
Boeing 777-200, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17 last year, when it was shot through the air and crashed in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk, about 60 kilometers from the Russian border.
MH17 crash killed all 283 passengers and 15 crew members.
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