Wooden coffins containing bodies of some of the first 50 victims recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are being flown back to the Netherlands from the crash site in eastern Ukraine.
A departure ceremony was held at Kharkiv Airport as bodies were loaded onto an Australian Boeing C17 military aircraft.
Honour guards take part in a ceremony with coffins at Kharkiv Airport It has left the airbase for Eindhoven, where it will be met by relatives, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and members of the Dutch royal family.
A Dutch C130 Hercules carrying more bodies is expected to leave for the Netherlands shortly to arrive at the same time.
Sky's Michelle Clifford, at the airport, said: "The real difficulty is planes are going to be coming in with bodies on board - but none of those families know whether their loved ones are going to be on those planes."
Coffins are loaded onto a plane at the airbase Simon Smith, Britain's ambassador to Ukraine, also at the scene, told Sky News: "This is an extremely difficult operation that requires a lot of different nations coming together to pool their skills and expertise."
A national day of mourning for the 298 people on board the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, the majority of whom were Dutch, has been declared for today, including a silent march in Amsterdam for the victims this evening.
A minute's silence will be held before a motorcade takes the bodies to the Korporaal van Oudheusden military barracks in Hilversum, where the long process of identifying the remains will begin.
Mr Rutte has warned the identification process could take weeks or even months.
floral tributes for the victims of MH17 at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam A British team of police officers, led by the Metropolitan Police, will help identify the victims.
The Boeing 777-200 took off from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, bound for Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia last Thursday when it was brought down near Grabovo, Donetsk, where Ukrainian forces have been battling separatists.
Five refrigerated wagons containing 200 bodies were released by rebels in Ukraine on Tuesday. It is thought more than 80 bodies have been left at the scene.
Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott said it was unclear how many bodies may have arrived in Kharkiv - and how many had been left behind.
A Malaysian air crash investigator inspects the crash site of MH17 Investigators at the crash scene confirmed there were still some unrecovered human remains and "smaller body parts".
The jet's two black box flight data recorders have also been handed over by separatists and have arrived in the UK to be examined by British experts from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Farnborough, Hampshire.
Russia has been accused of arming the pro-Russian rebels who are suspected of shooting down the plane.
A senior US intelligence official said they believed pro-Russian separatists shot down the flight by mistake.
He confirmed evidence suggests the Russian government was not directly involved in causing the crash, but it "created the conditions" for the plane to be brought down by the rebels.
The official added Moscow was still supplying separatists with tanks and rocket launchers.
President Barack Obama visited the Dutch embassy in Washington on Tuesday and wrote in a condolence book: "We will not rest until we are certain that justice is done."
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