here. this is a b.u.k., a s.a.m., surface-to-air missile. does the government possess such weapons or only the russians and allies in ukraine? kiev does possess some soviet-era surface-to-air missiles or buks as they are called. if you read up on it, many military and weapons experts aren t sure ukraine the weapons ukraine has are even operable as of now. they have had them so long. there is a question of what would the ukrainians shoot at? their battle is with separatists who don t have any aircraft. the idea that the ukraine may have fired this missile was ruled out pretty quickly by the u.s. military services. i can tell you since february when it appeared the russians would invade ukraine, u.s. spy