On January 2, Russian troops used missiles from North Korea to attack Kharkiv. This was confirmed by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin.
Russia used North Korean missiles against Ukraine
Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on "Suspilne. Sprovyv" air that joint systematic work of prosecutors, investigators and experts is needed to confirm the data on the weapons origin used to attack Ukraine.
As for North Korea, the other day we received the first evidence of the Russian army's use of missiles manufactured in this country. The results of the preliminary scientific and technical examination confirm that the missile launched on January 2 over the central part of Kharkiv is a short-range missile developed by North Korea.
Kostin added that the same conclusions were reached by military experts from the Prosecutor General's Office interdepartmental working group.
They were also at the hit site and did a preliminary inspection and analysis of the missile parts. A comprehensive commission examination is currently underway, which should finally confirm this fact.
We are also working on identifying other ammunition wreckage that were found at the sites of recent attacks in Kharkiv and Odesa regions, Kostin said.
North Korea supplies Russia with missiles: what is known
On January 2, Russian troops attacked Kyiv, Kyiv region, and Kharkiv. Air defence forces shot down 72 air targets out of 99, including 10 "Kinzhal" aeroballistic missiles, 59 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles and three Kalibr cruise missiles.
On January 4, the White House announced that the Russian Federation had already received short-range ballistic missiles from North Korea and had launched several of them over Ukraine — on December 30, 2023 (hit the Zaporizhzhia region) and severely on January 2.
On January 10, UN South Korea's permanent representative, Hwang Jung-kook, said that North Korea is using Ukraine as a testing ground for ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
