MOSCOW. Sept 17 (Interfax) - The missile that downed the Malaysian Boeing in eastern Ukraine was not received by the Russian army along with the other property left by the Ukrainian military in Crimea, Nikolai Parshin, the chief of the Russian Defense Ministry Main Rocket and Artillery Directorate, said on Monday.
"Of the 214 surface-to-air guided missiles that were in the 55th air defense regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was deployed in Evpatoria at that time, 209 were surface-to-air guided missiles of 9M38M1 modification, that is, it's not the modification that the joint investigative group is looking for. And these five missiles are 9M38 missiles. Here is a slide, you see, firstly, the production year does not coincide, it states 1984, not 1986. And the factory number is 884. I already told you, 84 stands for production year. And we spoke about a missile with number 886," Parshin told a press conference in Moscow.