285 people together with the crew are believed to be on board.
Malaysia Airlines says that there were 173 Dutch, 44 Malaysian, 24 Australian, 12 Indonesian and 9 United Kingdom residents on board.
20 passengers’ nationalities are unknown.
Foreign Ministry representative Andriy Sybiga told journalists that rescuers have recovered as many as 181 bodies so far at the site of the Malaysian airliner crash in eastern Ukraine.
Interpol team will be sent to Ukraine to investigate the reasons of the crash.