Pro-Russian forces finally agree to hand over MH17 black boxes - PHOTO

Pro-Russian rebels today said they have recovered the black boxes from MH17 and taken them to Donetsk where they will be handed over to international investigators.Rebel leader Aleksander Borodai told a press conference in Donetsk: 'Some items, presumably the black boxes, were found, and they have been delivered to Donetsk and they are under our control.'There are no specialists among us who could pinpoint the look of the black boxes, but we brought to Donetsk some technical items which could be the black boxes of the airliner.'However, Ukrainian security officials retorted that Russia has reinforced rebels with three multiple rocket launchers and four heavy tanks, while massing troops on the border.Pro-Kiev authorities today released details of what they claimed to be a recording of a phone calls from Friday afternoon between a senior rebel commander and a number of his men at the crash site discussing MH17's black boxes.Oleksandr Serhiyovych, commander of the Vostok battalion calls one of his men and asks whether the black boxes have yet been recovered because 'Moscow asks where they are'. Serhiyovych warns that the black boxes must be brought under rebel control and kept away from international inspectors who were arriving at the scene. In a second call to another rebel, Serhiyovych said: 'I have a request for you. It is not my request Our friends from high above are very much interested in the fate of the black boxes. I mean people from Moscow.' A pro-Russian rebel who calls himself 'Novorossiya', or New Russia, had earlier Tweeted that the black boxes belonging to the downed Malaysian airliner had been brought to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. An international team of air crash investigators has still not been able to access the scene because of the area's instability. Mr Borodai said he planned handing the black boxes over to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.He also said the bodies recovered from the crash site in eastern Ukraine would remain in refrigerated containers at a train station in the town of Torez until the arrival of an international aviation delegation.However, despite the move to reduce tension between Russia and the international community, Putin has ordered troops to move closer to the border with Ukraine, even supplying extra armaments and new multiple rocket systems to rebels.This incendiary allegation came as the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko insisted he had seen new satellite imagery of the site of the strike which downed the Malaysian Boeing 777, giving 'conclusive evidence' of collusion between Moscow and separatists on the attack.In shocking new disclosures - in defiance of Western demands to Vladimir Putin - he is not only reinforcing his military capability on the border, but supplying yet more lethal weapons to rebels, according to security officials in Kiev.Even as blame for the MH17 atrocity is linked directly to the separatists and Moscow, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council yesterday listed the weaponry it claims to have seen crossing from Russia into rebel held regions close to the site of the plane crash.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az