Ukraine Admits Selling Cruise Missiles to China and Iran
Posted 3-20-2005 at 06:11 PM
Ukraine has acknowledged exporting 12 cruise missiles to Iran and six to China amid mounting pressure from other countries to explain how the sales occurred, the Financial Times has reported.
It quoted Ukraine’s prosecutor-general Svyatoslav Piskun as saying 18 X-55 cruise missiles, also known as Kh-55s or AS-15s, were exported in 2001, although none was exported with the nuclear warheads they were designed to carry, Reuters quoted the British newspaper.
The X-55 had a range of 3,000 km (1,860 miles), enough to put Japan within striking range of the Asian continent or to reach Israel from Iran, the newspaper said on Friday, adding Piskun’s statement was the first confirmation by a government official of the exports.
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Ukraine has acknowledged exporting 12 cruise missiles to Iran and six to China amid mounting pressure from other countries to explain how the sales occurred, the Financial Times has reported.
It quoted Ukraine’s prosecutor-general Svyatoslav Piskun as saying 18 X-55 cruise missiles, also known as Kh-55s or AS-15s, were exported in 2001, although none was exported with the nuclear warheads they were designed to carry, Reuters quoted the British newspaper.
The X-55 had a range of 3,000 km (1,860 miles), enough to put Japan within striking range of the Asian continent or to reach Israel from Iran, the newspaper said on Friday, adding Piskun’s statement was the first confirmation by a government official of the exports.
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