A team of experts has arrived in Ukraine to make a new effort to recover human remains and wreckage from flight MH17 which was brought down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

The 30-strong team, which includes people from Australia and Malaysia, reached Ukraine on Wednesday. Their efforts will focus on the area around a village named Petropavlivka which was considered too dangerous to approach by earlier rescue missions, Dutch media report.

In addition, two major burn sites will be re-investigated in the hope that dna evidence can be found from the two victims who have not yet been formally identified.

MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was brought down, apparently by a missile fired by pro-Russian rebels. All 298 people on board, most of them Dutch, were killed.

Earlier this week, the Daily Mail reported that personal possessions belonging to the crash victims still littered the crash site.

‘We are doing all we can to ensure this is the last recovery mission,’ the team’s chief Pieter Jaap Aalbersberg told a news conference.