KIEV, July 18 – Anton Heraschenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, has claimed that the Buk surface-to-air missile system, from which a missile could have been launched at a Malaysian plane in Donetsk region, was removed to Russia last night, and militants are planning to hand over the plane's black box flight recording equipment to "FSB curators."

"According to the latest reports, international-class terrorist Strelkov, or Girkin, came to Snizhne at night to resolve the situation with the downed Malaysian Boeing. The Buk system, from which a missile was launched, was removed at night to Russia, where it will most likely be destroyed," he wrote on his page on Facebook.