A Hungarian bureaucrat making a random inspection of the cargo discovered that the shipment included 300 Ukrainian surface-to-air (SAM) missiles and 100 launchers.

All flights from Ben-Gurion Airport were grounded in response (it is later confirmed to have been accidentally shot down by a Ukrainian missile).

In October, one of its passenger planes was shot down by a stray Ukrainian missile fired from the Black Sea during a training exercise.

He continued to maintain that both Ukrainian and Russian specialists still "are ruling out the possibility that the plane could have been hit by a Ukrainian missile."

Under the plan, the warheads would be removed from the Ukrainian missiles.

Under their plan, the U.S. would foot the bill for dismantling Ukrainian missiles and pay its share for the uranium extracted from warheads now in Ukraine.

Mr. Yeltsin was reported to be asserting in Moscow that the Ukrainian missiles might be moved to Russia.

For another, the Ukrainian missiles would be shipped back to Russia itself for dismantling.

None of the 11 forensic examinations carried out so far have proven the probability of hitting the Tupolev-154 by a Ukrainian missile.

Both Ukrainian and Russian officials insisted for days after the crash that a Ukrainian missile could not possibly have been involved.