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Wreckage recovered from Malaysia’s MH17 flight crashed in eastern Ukraine in July will be sent to the Netherlands by motor transport, the Dutch side decided on Monday after a meeting with top officials of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region and investigators, TASS reported.

Currently, the fragments of the ill-fated plane are kept at a Kharkiv-based plant. “The biggest fragments will be cut in smaller parts before sending to the Netherlands,” Kharkov governor Igor Baluta told journalists.

He said the MH17 wreckage had arrived in Kharkiv in a train of twelve cargo carriages. However larger parts had been brought here by motor transport — by a convoy of five heavy duty trucks, he said, adding that a refrigerator car had brought fragments of bodies of the MH17 passengers that would be taken to the Netherlands by air on November 28.

So far, there is no information on when the MH17 fragments are to be sent to the Netherlands.

The operation to collect fragments of the crashed plane started on November 16. Specialists managed to remove as many fragments as possible in cooperation with the OSCE and the local service, despite the difficult security situation, he said.