KIEV, May 28 - The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has discovered that purchases of weapons that were subsequently sent to Georgia were illegal, Segodnya newspaper reported.

In 2005, state controlled company Ukroboronservice purchased more than 50 Buk-M1 and Buk-M1-2 guided missiles for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry from a privately owned Russian-Ukraine firm that was not licensed to sign such deals, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin told the newspaper.