MH17 The remains of up to 80 victims of the MH17 incident could still be at the crash site, said Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

“My great fear is Russia is actively undermining this process... We learned today that there could be the remains of up to 80 bodies on the site,” she was quoted as saying by UK’s The Telegraph newspaper today.

MH17 was shot down by a missile on July 17 while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 persons on board.

Thus far, the pro-Russia separatists in the operating region and the Ukrainian government have both denied responsibility of the shooting and accused each other of firing the missile. Russia has denied allegations that it supplied anti-aircraft weapons to the separatists.

The remains of most of these victims have since been flown to a forensic facility in the Netherlands to identify the bodies.

The report added that international investigators from the Netherlands and Australia have been unable to reach the crash site despite trying for five days in a row due to heavy fighting between the Ukrainian government and separatist forces.

In addition, it says that the EU has blacklisted two alleged cronies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and froze the assets of the company that manufactures Buk surface-to-air missiles that were believed to have been fired at MH17.

Separately, Reuters reported that Russian investigators will be visiting the crash site today alongside international counterparts.

“Russian experts intend to meet the head of the investigative commission... and hand over all the materials that the chairperson of the commission had previously asked for.

“Today, the Russian representatives will also try to reach the crash area of the Boeing-777 and together with specialists from the international investigative commission examine the state of parts of the aircraft at the site,” Reuters quoted the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency as saying, citing a report by the Interfax news agency.