According to declassified US intelligence, Russia is buying artillery shells and missiles from North Korea. The report comes in the midst of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Russia is reportedly buying military equipment from North Korea. According to declassified US intelligence obtained by the New York Times, Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and missiles from Pyongyang. A US official said Russia plans to purchase more equipment from North Korea in the near future.
Russia bought artillery shells
U.S. government officials have suggested that Russia’s decision to purchase military equipment from Iran and the North indicates that U.S. sanctions and export restrictions imposed on Moscow impacted its ability to purchase weapons for the forces. Russian armies and to acquire electronics to produce military equipment. In early July, North Korea recognized the independence of the Ukrainian territories of Donetsk and Luhansk.
According to the news, Russia has received the first shipments of Iranian drones, which some US officials say had mechanical problems. The exact dimensions and dimensions of the military equipment Russia intends to purchase were not revealed by the report.
The UK says Russia is “struggling” to hold stocks of UAVs
Federico W. Kagan, a military expert at the American Enterprise Institute, explained that Russia’s decision to buy artillery shells or missiles from North Korea shows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reluctance or “unable to to support the Russian economy, even at a fundamental level, for a while”. … to mobilize war”. according to the New York Times report. Kagan suggested that Moscow’s decision to acquire military hardware shows a “massive failure” of its “military-industrial complex” which has “roots deep and very serious implications” for Russian troops. The report that Russia is buying military equipment from North Korea comes amid the ongoing war between Moscow and Kyiv.
The UK MoD, in its latest intelligence report on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, found that Moscow is “struggling” to maintain stocks of unmanned aerial vehicles due to component shortages caused by international sanctions.
“Given combat losses, Russia is likely to have difficulty maintaining drone stocks, compounded by component shortages resulting from international sanctions,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense said in the latest intelligence report. Ukraine says Russia has lost 50,150 soldiers since the start of the war
As Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine continues, the war-torn country’s armed forces claimed on Tuesday (September 6th) that Russia has 50,150 troops. On Facebook, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that since the start of the war on February 24, the Russian Armed Forces have lost 2,077 tanks, 4,484 armored fighting vehicles and 1,179 artillery systems. In addition, Russia lost 296 multiple launch missile systems (MLRS), 156 anti-aircraft systems, 236 aircraft, 207 helicopters, 3,305 vehicles and fuel tanks, 15 ships or boats, 876 unmanned aerial vehicles, 109 special forces and 209 cruise missiles.
