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New human remains have been found at the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Friday.
According to De Telegraaf, a Dutch team together with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe went to the crash site with local disaster relief workers on Friday.
They found the remains in a field where aircraft parts had been on fire on the day of the crash.
The remains will undergo an initial forensic check in the northern Ukraine city of Kharkiv, then be transported to the Netherlands for further examination, Mr Rutte said.
He said the situation on the ground near the crash site was "complex and chaotic", and every day the team had to assess whether it was possible to enter the area without putting the team, or other locals, at risk.
The July tragedy cost the lives of all 298 passengers and crew on board.
Identification of the remains recovered so far from the crash site is still under way.
As of one week ago, 36 of the 38 Australians on board had been identified by the forensic team in the Netherlands, assisted by experts for other countries including Australia.
There had been a diplomatic push to get experts back to the site to search for more remains before the fierce Ukraine winter set in.
Two weeks ago Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop met Russian president Vladimir Putin in Milan and won a promise that he would use his influence with the separatists in control of the site to gain access for investigators.