Dutch PM asks Ukraine to stop fighting near crash site: official

Pro-Russian militants block the road behind Dutch and Australian forensic teams on their way to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

AFPDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has called President Petro Poroshenko to ask Ukrainian forces to stop fighting around the MH17 crash site, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. "The prime minister this morning called the Ukrainian president with a request to halt hostilities around the crash site," Jean Fransman told AFP, after fighting with pro-Russian separatists prevented international investigators reaching the site for a third day.