THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY is scrambling to react to the downing of an Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine yesterday.

But amid the geopolitics is a human disaster, the loss of 298 lives.

Just outside of the tiny town of Grabovo, the wreckage is due to be inspected by investigators today.

Here is the view from that scene.

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Zurab Dzhavakhadze / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images Zurab Dzhavakhadze / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images

Zurab Dzhavakhadze / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images Zurab Dzhavakhadze / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images

Zurab Dzhavakhadze / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images A man walks amongst the debris at the crash site. Zurab Dzhavakhadze / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images / Photas/Tass/Press Association Images

Dmitry Lovetsky People inspect the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo. Dmitry Lovetsky

At the Dutch embassy in Kiev, a vigil was held.

AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov / Sergei Chuzavkov

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AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov Flowers and candles brought to the Embassy of the Netherlands in Kiev to commemorate victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov / Sergei Chuzavkov

Read: Malaysian passenger plane shot down by surface-to-air missile over Ukraine

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