A towing vehicle carrying a Buk anti-aircraft missile system was moving to the border with Russia in the early hours of Friday, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
He said that this missile system might have fired the missile that downed the Malaysian civil airliner in Ukraine on July 17.
“Today, on July 18, at 0450, secret surveillance units of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry detected a towing vehicle with a loaded tractor crawler missile system, moving through Krasnodon toward the border with the Russian Federation. Uncovered missiles can be seen on the video. Two missiles are in place – the middle one is not visible. This and other information gathered is being analyzed,” he wrote on his page on Facebook on July 18.
