Dutch MPs have called on foreign affairs minister Bert Koenders to find out the truth behind reports that wreckage from the MH17 plane crash is being displayed in a Russian museum.

Russian media reports say the museum, founded by a Russian veterans group, will display a fragment of the wreckage of MH17 which it received from residents in separatist-held territory.

The piece will reportedly be exhibited as evidence that the Ukrainian air force, not separatists, shot down the plane, killing all 298 people aboard, the International Business Times reported.

The veterans group, named as Combat Brotherhood, reportedly plan to display the wreckage in a World War II museum in the city of Yeysk. The piece of the plane was given to the veterans to thank them for humanitarian aid over the past year.

VVD parliamentarian Han ten Broeke wants Koenders to contact the Russian authorities to find out more and described the veterans’ action as showing a lack of respect to the crash victims.

Experts

On Wednesday, a team of experts 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.

Their efforts will focus on the area around a village named Petropavlivka which was considered too dangerous to approach by earlier rescue missions.

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.