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Pro-Russian Rebel Tweets Black Boxes In East Ukraine's Donetsk

Rebel Tweets Black Boxes Are In Donetsk
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OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) delegation members, background, work at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

KIEV, July 20 (Reuters) - A pro-Russian rebel who calls himself "Novorossiya", or New Russia, on Twitter tweeted on Sunday that the black boxes belonging to the downed Malaysian airliner had been brought to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Sergei Kavtaradze, a senior official of the pro-Russian rebels' self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), declined to comment on the report, which was also carried on Russia's Interfax news agency.

Rebels have said that the prime minister of the DNR would give a news conference shortly. (Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Alison Williams)

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