Washington: The Russian Defense Ministry is in the process of buying millions of rockets and artillery shells. North Korea for my ongoing fight in UkraineAccording to a newly downgraded US intelligence finding.
A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence determination, said on Monday that Russia is turning to the isolated state of North Korea, indicating that “Russian forces are supplying serious supplies to Ukraine.” Suffering from shortage, because of export controls and part of sanctions.”
US intelligence officials believe that Russia may consider purchasing additional military equipment from North Korea in the future. The intelligence discovery was first reported by The New York Times.
The discovery comes after the Biden administration recently confirmed that in August the Russian military took delivery of Iranian-made drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The White House said last week that Russia faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones it acquired from Tehran in August for use in its war with Ukraine.
Russia lifted Mohajer-6 and Shaheed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days last month, which the Biden administration says is part of a Russian plan to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs for use in Ukraine.
North Korea has sought to strengthen Europe’s greater ties with Russia, and the West has blamed the United States for the Ukraine crisis and the West’s “hegemony policy” in Ukraine by Russia’s military to defend itself. The action is condemned as justifying.
North Koreans have indicated interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied areas in the country’s east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow recently met envoys from two Russia-backed separatist regions in Ukraine’s Donbass region and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration”, citing his country’s easy pandemic border controls. did.
In July North Korea became the only nation separate from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, and proceeded with Russia on the conflict in Ukraine.
A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence determination, said on Monday that Russia is turning to the isolated state of North Korea, indicating that “Russian forces are supplying serious supplies to Ukraine.” Suffering from shortage, because of export controls and part of sanctions.”
US intelligence officials believe that Russia may consider purchasing additional military equipment from North Korea in the future. The intelligence discovery was first reported by The New York Times.
The discovery comes after the Biden administration recently confirmed that in August the Russian military took delivery of Iranian-made drones for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The White House said last week that Russia faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones it acquired from Tehran in August for use in its war with Ukraine.
Russia lifted Mohajer-6 and Shaheed-series unmanned aerial vehicles over several days last month, which the Biden administration says is part of a Russian plan to acquire hundreds of Iranian UAVs for use in Ukraine.
North Korea has sought to strengthen Europe’s greater ties with Russia, and the West has blamed the United States for the Ukraine crisis and the West’s “hegemony policy” in Ukraine by Russia’s military to defend itself. The action is condemned as justifying.
North Koreans have indicated interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied areas in the country’s east.
North Korea’s ambassador to Moscow recently met envoys from two Russia-backed separatist regions in Ukraine’s Donbass region and expressed optimism about cooperation in the “field of labor migration”, citing his country’s easy pandemic border controls. did.
In July North Korea became the only nation separate from Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of the regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, and proceeded with Russia on the conflict in Ukraine.