KYIV. UkraineGate . 6. September . 2022 | World News.
Russia is buying artillery shells and missiles from North Korea, according to US intelligence. Moscow’s purchase of millions of projectiles and missiles in North Korea is seen as a sign that sanctions have made it difficult to supply the Russian armed forces, The New York Times reports .
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“Russia is buying millions of artillery shells and missiles from North Korea, according to recently declassified US intelligence data, a sign that global sanctions have severely limited its supply chains and forced Moscow to turn to rogue states for military supplies,” the newspaper writes.
The disclosure comes days after Russia received the first batches of Iranian-made drones, some of which US officials said had mechanical problems. US government officials said Russia’s decision to reach out to Iran and now North Korea was a sign that sanctions and export controls imposed by the United States and Europe were preventing Moscow from getting supplies for its military.
A US official said that in addition to short-range missiles and artillery shells, Russia is expected to try to purchase additional North Korean equipment in the future.
“The Kremlin should be alarmed that it has to buy anything from North Korea at all,” said Mason Clark, who heads the Russia group at the Institute for the Study of War.
The US official said that the new agreement with North Korea shows Moscow’s desperation. And Frederick Kagan, a military expert at the American Enterprise Institute, said that the appeal to North Korea is a sign that Russia may not be able to produce the simplest equipment needed to wage war.
“The only reason the Kremlin should buy artillery shells or missiles from North Korea or anyone else is because Putin is unwilling or unable to mobilize the Russian economy for war, even at the most basic level,” Kagan said.
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Russia is facing a serious shortage of personnel in Ukraine and is ready to send wounded soldiers, the US official said earlier.
Source: Ukrgate
