David Cameron is set to meet the families of British victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane in London later.
He will express his condolences to the families and discuss the international response to the crash on 17 July.
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine have been blamed for the crash, which killed all 298 passengers - including 10 Britons.
EU ambassadors are due to discuss new economic sanctions against Russia in Brussels later.
Western nations have said there was growing evidence the plane had been hit by a Russian-supplied missile fired by rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has denied supplying heavy weapons to the rebels, with both the Kremlin and the rebels blaming Ukrainian government forces for the crash.
'Get them back'A Ukrainian official this week said the "black box" flight recorders from the plane had showed it had crashed because of a massive, explosive loss of pressure when it was hit by a rocket.
The data and voice recorders were last week sent to the UK for analysis by aviation experts.
Ahead of his visit to Downing Street, Barry Sweeney - whose son, Liam, died on flight MH17 - told BBC Radio 5 live he would ask Mr Cameron to help repatriate the bodies of the victims.
"I'll say to Mr Cameron...just help, just get them all back," he said.
EU ambassadors are expected to agree far-reaching economic sanctions against Moscow, targeting Russia's defence, energy and financial sectors.
Any new sanctions against Russia could come into force within 24 hours of a deal being reached between the EU's 28 member states.
Mr Cameron said he and his French, German and Italian counterparts had agreed on the need for further action against Moscow in a conference call with US President Barack Obama on Monday.
A No 10 spokesman said Moscow had failed to take the necessary steps to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine.
"Indeed the latest information from the region suggests that even since MH17 was shot down, Russia continues to transfer weapons across the border and to provide practical support to the separatists," a Downing Street spokeswoman said.
'Serious measures'No 10 said the five leaders had agreed that the international community "should therefore impose further costs on Russia and specifically that ambassadors from across the EU should agree a strong package of sectoral sanctions as swiftly as possible".
Former Conservative foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the West had adopted a "symbolic response" to perceived Russian aggression until now.
He said he had been waiting "for some months" for the international community to impose "serious measures" against President Putin.
"When you get to the situation of preventing them having access to financial markets, preventing high quality technology technology exports to their energy industry, that goes to the very heart of the Russian economy," he said.
The BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said discussions were focusing on restricting the access of Russian banks to finance from the City of London and also a ban on future defence and high-tech energy exports from the EU to Russia.
It comes after it was announced the UK will send 1,350 military personnel to Poland for exercises to support Nato allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
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