Australian politicians and foreign diplomats are expected at a memorial service in Canberra to remember victims of the MH17 crash.
The public service at St Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Saturday will be a short but fitting memorial, Father Michael Solomko said.
"It is our Ukrainian Orthodox tradition that we pray for the souls of our loved ones for a period of 40 days," he told AAP.
The world continues to mourn more than a week after the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing all 298 people on board.
Up to 39 Australian citizens and residents are among those killed.
