The news comes a week after Kyiv began a major counteroffensive in the south of the country to take back territory Moscow captured in its initial invasion.
Russia is purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for use in the Ukraine conflict, according to a U.S. official, citing newly downgraded intelligence.
The news comes a week after Kyiv began a major counteroffensive in the south of the country to take back territory Moscow captured in its initial invasion. Since the operation began, Ukraine has recaptured several settlements in the mostly Russian-occupied region of Kherson.
Also last week, Russia began receiving the first shipments of Iranian drones for use on the battlefield, according to the Pentagon. The drones, the Mohajer-6 and Shahed series, can be used to conduct strikes, electronic warfare and targeting. But officials said the systems have already experienced a number of failures.
U.S. officials said Russia’s purchase of military equipment from pariah states is a sign that sanctions and export controls are working to restrict Moscow’s supplies.
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Russia is buying millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea to use in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official https://t.co/NnUJuAfG5L
— POLITICO (@politico) September 6, 2022
Northern Kherson Oblast.
04.09.2022 pic.twitter.com/LO9CrwVSka— Oleksiy Sorokin (@mrsorokaa) September 4, 2022
Russia’s war-machine in Ukraine is so depleted that “Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and rockets from North Korea.”
This is the Russian military threat against NATO? https://t.co/BOwjxvgM0i
— Hans Kristensen (@nukestrat) September 6, 2022
How the mighty have fallen. Back in the 1980s, the Soviet Union refused to sell extra weapons to North Korea, because they didn’t want them starting a war. https://t.co/hDUn9w1sa9
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 6, 2022
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