Moscow on Monday once again urged the United States to disclose the satellite images taken over eastern Ukraine when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed.

Moscow continued to "insist" that Washington should "share its satellite data because there's no way they could not have seen what happened there on that day," Russian envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Andrey V. Kelin, told Russia's TV channel Rossiya 24.

Russia also "urgently needs" Kiev to disclose the communication records between Ukrainian air traffic controllers, Kelin said.

"I was glad to learn today that collection of the wreckage resumed and all will be taken away," Kelin said. "I hope and see that, after overcoming political difficulties, the investigation is getting along well."

Dutch investigators have begun evacuating debris of the crashed Boeing 777 from the crash site in eastern Ukraine. The Dutch Safety Board, leading the investigation into the crash, announced on Monday, that the recovery of the wreckage started on Sunday and will be completed in about five more days.

The tail section of the aircraft and more human remains have been recovered and the wreckage and the remains will be transported by train to Kharkiv for further examination and finally to the Netherlands, said the Dutch Safety Board investigators, who were supervising the retrieval works that were observed by the OSCE.

The Malaysian Airlines flight crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing 298 people on board.

Both Kiev and the West have since claimed that Russian missiles were responsible for bringing the aircraft to ground, but no evident was provided up till now to prove that allegation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a tense 15-minute conversation with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on the sidelines of APEC meetings in Beijing, with the main focus on the catastrophe of the Malaysian airliner.

Abbott's office said in a statement released Wednesday that Abbott and Putin have agreed that the aforementioned information should be provided to the independent investigation, and have " robustly spoken out in favor of speeding up the investigation of the reasons for the tragedy." Endite

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