The Ukrainian Defense Ministry says BM-21 Grad, Smerch and BM-27 Uragan rocket launch systems are not stationed at Ukrainian Ground Forces Southern Operations Command.

Officials say the Soviet-designed multiple-rocket launchers have not been stationed in the Kharkiv region since the early 1990s, the Ukrainian government reported.

The Ukrainian armed forces said that "the Grad, Smerch and Uragan multiple-rocket launch systems have not been kept at the 61st arms depot of the Southern Operations Command since 1991 until present," the release said.

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