Effort to identify bodies will take weeks or months , head of forensics team says . Team leader says Ukraine military breaks through to part of crash site . Flare - up in fighting near crash site in eastern Ukraine pull back investigation team . And yet , 11 days after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky by a suspected surface-to-air missile , the Dutch investigators in charge of finding out what happened have yet to lay eyes on the wreckage or the human remains believed to remain strewn across the enormous debris field . Washington threatens further war against Moscow .
Effort to identify bodies will take weeks or months , head of forensics team says . Team leader says Ukraine military breaks through to part of crash site . Flare - up in fighting near crash site in eastern Ukraine pull back investigation team . Washington threatens further war against Moscow .