Ukrainian prosecutor general says militants did not seize Ukrainian air defense launchers

Members of illegal armed units have not seized air defense launchers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema said.

“The military told the president after the passenger plane had been
shot down [in the Donetsk region] that the terrorists did not possess
our Buk and S-300 missile systems. Such had not been seized,” the
prosecutor general told the Ukrainska Pravda online edition after the
Thursday meeting on July 17 of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said earlier air defense missile
systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had not been used in the
antiterrorism operation and there were no Ukrainian fighters in the air
at the time the Malaysian airline crashed.