Vladimir Shkidchenko and Anatoly Kinah

Ukraine's defence minister Volodymyr Shkidchenko, right, speaks to premier Anatoliy Kinakh during parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, on Friday, July 5, 2002. Shkidchenko denied any possibility of accidental missile attack against Israeli passenger plane, after a pilot of the El Al Israel Air national carrier flying over eastern Ukraine reported seeing a missile fired from the ground early hours Friday. According to Ukraine's Defence Ministry, there were no military training with shooting across Ukraine at that time, although the ministry created a special group to check the incident. Photo by Viktor Pobedinsky / UNIAN