As it happened: Reaction to MH17 Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Ukraine

Key Points

• Pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine are to allow investigators access to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
• The UN Security Council has demanded a "full, thorough and independent international investigation"
• Contact was lost with the plane as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur at 14:15 GMT on Thursday
• Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels accuse each other of shooting down the plane
• There were 298 passengers and crew on board, 189 of them Dutch citizens
• All times in BST (GMT +1).