Calls for an immediate ceasefire and ensure ‘the truth comes out’

World leaders called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and demanded speedy access for international investigators to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner shot down over the country’s battlefields.

The strong words came amid the contrasting images of emergency workers and off-duty coal miners fanning out across picturesque sunflower fields searching for charred bodies and wreckage from the Boeing 777.

The attack killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations — including holidaymakers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia.