According to Forbes analysts, Ukraine's acquisition of missiles from South Korea will allow it to hit the planes of the occupation army of the Russian Federation.
Points of attention
- Acquisition of missiles from South Korea can enable Ukraine to target and hit aircraft of the occupation army of the Russian Federation.
- Ukrainian military can utilize long-range tactical missiles and attack UAVs to attack Russian aircraft at airfields, potentially disabling entire fleets.
- Cooperation with South Korea is crucial for Ukraine's security, especially in the face of potential military assistance from North Korea to Russia.
- While permission from Western partners may be required for certain strikes, the use of South Korean missiles could still offer strategic advantages in occupied territories.
- Potential aid from South Korea in the form of Hyunmoo series ICBMs could provide Ukraine with additional firepower to counter Russian military presence.
How South Korea can help Ukraine destroy the planes of the Russian army
The publication notes that following the visit of Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin to the DPRK, Moscow probably agreed with Pyongyang on further military assistance.
In response to this, South Korea's National Security Adviser Jang Ho-jin said that if North Korea supplies Russia with more weapons, Seoul will start providing military aid to Ukraine.
So far, South Korea has not made official statements about increasing military aid to Ukraine, but it is likely that Kyiv may request from Seoul similar weapons that Russia receives from North Korea.
It is known that at the end of last year, the Russian Federation bought a batch of powerful KN-23 submarine ballistic missiles from the DPRK and used them with devastating effect.
If North Korea can sell the KN-23 to Russia, then South Korea can sell Hyunmoo series ICBMs to Ukraine, said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey.
Currently, it is not known whether Ukraine will be able to receive Hyunmoo-2B from South Korea.
The USA has already handed Ukraine dozens of ATACMS long-range tactical missiles, demanding their limited use for strikes on strategic targets of the criminal army of the Russian Federation.
Washington allows Kiev to target ATGMs at targets in Russian-occupied Ukraine, but not at targets in Russia itself. This means that front-line Russian airbases, on which dozens of Sukhoi fighter-bombers armed with devastating glider bombs are based, are out of reach, the authors of the material emphasize.
What can help Ukraine to destroy the fleet of fighter-bombers of the Russian army
However, the Ukrainian military can attack Russian aircraft at airfields using attack UAVs.
However, light drones do not have enough firepower to destroy aircraft based at Russian airfields.
The authors of the material assume that due to well-targeted ATGMs and ballistic missiles, Ukraine will be able to disable the entire fleet of fighter-bombers at the Malshevo airfield in Voronezh.
However, such strikes require permission from Western partners.
Even without permission to launch strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, Ukraine could use South Korean missiles with benefit, because there are many valuable Russian objects in the occupied territories that could be destroyed, analysts of the publication emphasize.
