Malaysian minister in Russia to discuss crash probe

[MOSCOW] Malaysia's defence minister said on Wednesday he has arrived in Moscow for talks over a probe into the crash of Flight MH17 in Ukraine, which killed 298 people.

"Just arrived in Moscow: another long day of back-to-back meetings," Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Twitter, a day after Dutch investigators released a preliminary report on the July disaster.

He will meet his Russian counterpart and foreign ministry officials, a spokeswoman for Malaysia's Moscow embassy said.