“The board of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine will return from Tehran only after completing all procedures, and when we can pick up the bodies of all 11 citizens of Ukraine who died in a plane crash,” Danilov wrote on Facebook.
He noted that all the necessary specialists are working for this.
The Ukrainian Boeing 737 crashed on January 8 shortly after taking off from Tehran, killing 176 people.
On January 11, Tehran admitted that the country's air defense system mistakenly shot down a passenger plane, mistaking it for a cruise missile.
Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani promised to send a special representative to Ukraine to officially express regret over the emergency.