Tony Abbott offers 50 Australian police to help secure MH17 site

By James Massola, David Wroe
Updated July 25 2014 - 9:18am, first published July 24 2014 - 5:59pm
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has released an official statement saying Tony Abbott made the offer during a phone conversation overnight. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has released an official statement saying Tony Abbott made the offer during a phone conversation overnight. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Fifty Australian federal police have been pre-deployed to London ahead of a potential mission to Ukraine to help secure the crash site of the downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.