A spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told AFP its fighters had shot down the two aircraft.

An AFP crew trying to reach the scene was turned back by rebels who fired shots near their car some 10 kilometers from Dmytrivka.

The downing of the government jets comes just six days after the insurgents were accused of shooting down the Malaysian passenger plane using a surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people on board.

Pro-Russian rebels battling government troops in the east had previously taken out a string of Ukrainian military aircraft during their 15-week insurgency.

The rebels have denied that they downed flight MH17, accusing the Ukrainian military of being responsible for hitting the jet.

First MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands as nation mourns

The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, with grieving relatives and the king and queen solemnly receiving the as yet unidentified victims.

Church bells rang out throughout the country as the planes touched down with the much-delayed return of the first 40 bodies of the 298 people killed in the disaster, most of them Dutch.

In a reminder of the ongoing war that is hampering recovery and investigation efforts, the Ukrainian military said that two of its fighter jets had been shot down Wednesday, possibly close to the Boeing's crash site.

The Netherlands has been united in grief and growing anger because of delays in getting bodies home and over the way pro-Russian separatists have treated the crash site, bodies and personal possessions.

The planes left from Kharkiv in Ukraine, where the bodies were given a dignified ceremony as they were carried on board by army cadets before a small party of officials.

Around 1,000 bereaved relatives of the 193 Dutch dead, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and representatives of the other nations that lost citizens on the flight met the planes.

分離主義打倒MH17現場附近有兩個烏克蘭喉：軍事

近Dmytrivka和尼古拉斯·德勞內，法新社
2014年7月24日，上午12:08 TWN

烏克蘭/荷蘭 - 親俄羅斯的反政府武裝在週三擊落了兩架烏克蘭戰鬥機在叛亂持有的區域，馬來西亞航空公司飛行MH17被擊落，烏克蘭軍方說。

在一份聲明中“恐怖分子擊落了兩架烏克蘭的蘇-25戰鬥機，”新聞辦公室基輔的打擊叛亂分子的軍事行動說。

該飛​​機是由導彈被叛軍接近Dmytrivka，朝俄邊境MH17墜機現場約45公里（25哩）東南村解僱，因為他們為政府步兵空中支援災區，在聲明中說。

從兩款飛機的飛行員設法跳傘，它說，給自己的病情沒有進一步的細節。

發言人自稱頓涅茨克中華人民共和國告訴法新社其戰鬥機擊落了兩架飛機。

法新社船員試圖到達現場並轉身叛軍誰開槍接近他們的車約10公里，從Dmytrivka。

政府飛機被擊落而來的叛亂分子被指控擊落馬來西亞客機使用表面對空導彈，全部遇難298人在船上後僅僅六天。

親俄羅斯的反政府武裝作戰政府軍在東部地區曾取出烏克蘭軍用飛機字符串在其15週的叛亂。

叛軍已否認他們擊落飛行MH17，指責負責打噴烏克蘭軍隊。

第一MH17機構在到達荷蘭的國家哀悼

從飛行MH17第一機構差不多一個星期抵達荷蘭在週三後，被擊落了烏克蘭，有悲傷的親屬和國王和王后鄭重接受身份不明的受害者。

教堂的鐘聲響起了全國各地的飛機降落與拖延已久的298人死於這場災難，他們大多荷蘭的第一個40具屍體的回報。

在正在進行的戰爭，是阻礙復甦和調查工作的一個提醒，烏克蘭軍方表示，它的兩個戰鬥機被擊落週三，可能接近波音公司的墜機現場。

荷蘭已經團結，因為在得到機構的家和過親俄的分離主義者對待出事地點，組織和個人財產的方式拖延的悲傷和憤怒不斷增加。

這批飛機是從哈爾科夫留在烏克蘭，那裡的屍體被賦予一個有尊嚴的儀式，因為他們是官員的一個小黨由前軍校學生軍在船上進行。

大約1,000死者親屬193荷蘭死了，國王威廉 - 亞歷山大和千里馬女王，首相魯特和失去公民在飛機上遇見了飛機的其他國家的代表。