The bodies of 282 of the victims on board Malaysia Airlines flight 17 will be in Amsterdam within the day, after pro-Russian rebels controlling the crash site finally agreed to have them moved out of their jurisdiction.

Before nightfall Monday, a refrigerated car filled with the bodies left Torez on its way to the city of Kharkiv in government-controlled territory. From there, an aircraft will take the bodies on to Amsterdam, where the bodies will be processed and identified.

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The bodies will then be flown to the countries where families have been waiting for the last five days. The Netherlands lost 193 citizens in the crash.

Hours earlier, a team of Dutch investigators arrived at the crash site, and were allowed by separatist rebels to inspect the bodies that have been loaded on the refrigerated cars.

It was not clear who gave the order to move the train out of Torez into Ukrainian government-held territory.

In another major development, pro-Russian rebels promised Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak that they will turn over the black boxes from the ill-fated aircraft to the Malaysian team already in the Ukraine.

The black boxes, composed of a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, will be crucial in determining what happened in the plane before it went down Thursday in rebel-controlled territory.

The arrival of Dutch forensics experts at the crash site Monday came as the United Nations Security Council was preparing to vote on a resolution demanding full international access to the crash site. Australia earlier submitted a draft resolution, but Russia later said they have submitted an alternative draft.

Russia's foreign minister said they will only agree to the resolution, if it does not blame anyone or any sector for causing the tragedy. 

TagsTorez, Amsterdam, Ukraine, MH17, Malaysia Airlines