During one of the latest missile attacks on Kyiv, Russian aggressors fired a North Korean-made ballistic missile at the capital of Ukraine.
Russia's army hit Kyiv with a North Korean ballistic missile
The agency's specialists added that it is difficult to clearly establish which missile was struck, either KN-23 or KN-24, but Kyiv was the target of this ballistic missile.
Defense Express experts confirm that residents of the capital found the remains of this missile. In the photo sent to the editors, a rather large piece of debris, similar to the fuselage, can be seen.
It has a rather uncharacteristic marking for Russian missiles, which they tried to erase. Placing large serial numbers on missiles is characteristic only for North Korea, experts emphasise.
They add that by applying such long serial numbers, Pyongyang is probably trying to create the illusion of many such missiles in its arsenal. At the same time, as military experts emphasize, Russia does not apply serial numbers to missiles in this way.
After the missiles were shot down, as Defense Express specialists explain, the debris was scattered over a relatively large area, so their identification is somewhat tricky. The same situation was observed in Kharkiv after the impact of a North Korean missile.
At that time, Ukrainian experts had practically no information since the missiles from North Korea at that time did not reach their targets; that is, they remained within the borders of the Russian Federation and fell into the sea. It was then, from the speech of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, that it became officially known that Russia used a ballistic missile manufactured by North Korea to strike Kharkiv during the mass shelling on January 2, 2024.
North Korea transferred missiles to Russia
Recently, the coordinator of the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby, said that Russia bought ballistic missiles from North Korea. They have already been used for attacks on Ukraine.
At the beginning of January, information appeared that the occupiers had hit Kharkiv with North Korean missiles. Subsequently, the prosecutor's office confirmed this and provided details.
In an interview with RBC-Ukraine, the deputy chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Vadym Skibitsky, said that North Korea actively supplied ammunition to the Russian Federation throughout the fall. According to intelligence estimates, the Russian army could receive about a million shells from North Korea.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared about "red lines", commenting on the supply of North Korean missiles to Russia.
