A team of seven forensic officers of the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP) left for Kiev on Saturday to resume the search for wreckage and new evidence of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which is believed to have been shot down over the troubled country in July last year, the Bernama reported.

ACP Hussein Omar Khan said the team, comprising experts in disaster victim identification (DVI) and crime scene investigation (CSI), was expected to re-enter the tragedy site along with the international investigation team on Tuesday.

"We will resume the search for body parts, if any, and also new physical evidence for investigation.

"The team is expected to be in Donetsk for two to three weeks," he told Bernama via SMS today.

Hussein said the team was the same team that was deployed to the tragedy site before.

Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

The Boeing 777-200 aircraft is believed to have been shot down.