TASS:
MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Russia has not provided a single new missile for the Buk air defense systems in Ukraine since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Russian Defense Ministry said in an official statement on Friday.
“Since the moment the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991 and the split of the military equipment that followed, Ukraine, which then obtained about 20 Buk battalions, has not received a single new air defense missile,” the statement runs.
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed by Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine on May 24 published an interim report of its probe into the MH17 disaster over Ukraine in 2014. The investigators claim that the launcher that fired the missile might have been brought from Russia’s 53rd air defense brigade stationed near Kursk.
