Ukrainian police say they have turned over an undisclosed number of air defense missiles to the military after uncovering a plot by two people to hide a Tor air defense system they found after the Russians left it behind in the Chernihiv region as they evacuated in the spring of 2022.

The headquarters of the National Police in Kyiv said the investigation began when they found the Tor launcher system somewhere in Brorvar district. They provided scant details, but said the discovery kicked off an effort to find who put it there and what they did with the missiles that went with it.

“After carrying out a number of operational and search measures, the law enforcement officers managed to establish the location” of those missiles, the National Police said Friday on their Telegram channel. “They were stored by the second offender in another part of the Kyiv region in a rented garage box.”

It is unclear from the information released by the National Police when all this took place or which of the several variants of the Tor, for which they provided no imagery, the men hid. Nor did they say how many of the 9M331 air defense missiles were recovered. The police said only that “the cost of the missiles is about 30 million hryvnias (about $811,000).”

[Bet there’s a lot of “leftover” stuff in Kyiv garages people don’t want found. ~ Beege]