"Seriously affected the war in Ukraine": the DPRK supplies the Russian Federation Ammunition 122 mm, - WP (photo)

This is a new route for the mentioned Russian ships, until August 2023 they did not swim it. According to the US, the Russian Federation replenishes its reducing arms. Last week, the White House representatives reported that in recent weeks of the DPRK have been set up by the Russian Federation at least 1000 containers of "equipment and ammunition". But the British Analytical Center Rusi believes that the mentioned operations occur more regularly than previously evaluated in Washington.

Since mid-August, two Russian ships "Angar" and "Maria" have made at least five circular crossings between the northeast port of Rason (Rajin) in North Korea and the port of the Danube in the Russian Far East. Although there are no thorough confirmations, Rusi analysts believe that commercial ships related to Russian military logistics are transporting military equipment.

According to Jack Wotling, a researcher of land campaigns, the supply of weapons from the DPRK will seriously affect the war in Ukraine. "North Korea has production facilities to produce large volumes of ammunition and significant reserves," he said. Since the Korean War, after 1953, North and South Korea has accumulated significant arsenals of traditional weapons, in the event that hostilities began on the peninsula again.

The DPRK produces two types of ammunition, which the Russian Federation actively uses in Ukraine - the projectiles of the Soviet sample 122 mm for the Grad installations and the same caliber for howitzers. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation desperately require more such shells for the war for exhaustion against Ukraine. When this supply began, ammunition warehouses on the border with Ukraine in Tikhoretsk (Krasnodar Territory) began to grow rapidly, as evidenced by satellite images.

According to Rusi's analysis, the last cargo from Maria ship was unloaded in the Russian port last Saturday. According to Marine Traffic resource, which tracks water transport routes, Russian ships switched off automatic identification signals to hide their location. It is believed that North Korea has large warehouses of artillery ammunition compatible with Soviet and Russian installations.

The Angara ship is owned by M Laseing, for which sanctions of the United States, Britain and Ukraine "for the transportation of weapons and military equipment in the interests of the Government of the Russian Federation" are operating. Manages Marine Trans Shipping, another sub -company. According to the registration documents, the Maria ship is related to JSC Sovfracht. In 2019, the United States concluded that Sovfracht helped to bypass sanctions by Russian troops operating in Syria.