North Korea provides Russia with up to 50% of ammunition firing Ukraine - intelligence

"Currently, North Korea provides from 35 to 50% of the needs of Russia in ammunition, supplying 200-260 thousand shells of 152 mm and 122 mm a month," Oleg Alexandrov, an employee of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, said in an interview with Ukrinform. According to him, Russia and the DPRK use war with Ukraine, including to test the North Korean weapons.

This applies to the upgraded version of the Soviet anti-tank missile system "Contest" (the North Korean version-"Phoenix-2"), self-propelled long-range PTRC "Bulsae-4" and large-caliber RSZV 600 mm KN-25. Oleg Alexandrov recalled that Pyongyang has put the Kremlin settings and ballistic missiles of low range KN-23 and KN-24, which the Russian side fired at the cities of Ukraine.

According to the SZRU, in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation there is a contingent of the North Korean military, the number of which ranges from 8. 5 to 13 thousand people. This allows the Russian side to release the equivalent amount of its forces for war against Ukraine.

In addition, the intelligence recorded in September, as a thousand military people from the DPRK arrived in the Kursk region in accordance with Pyongyan's statements about the referral to this region of additional forces of 1 thousand sappers and 5 thousand military builders. Also in Russia are actively attracting North Korean labor migrants to compensate for the losses of the able -bodied population as a result of mobilization measures. At present, at least 17.

8 thousand workers from North Korea work in the Russian Federation. Also, another 26,000 employees will be brought to the Russian Federation, some of whom will work in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. But most of them are likely to go to the factories where Shahda is made. Focus wrote that working migrants from the DPRK in Russia work in horrible conditions without weekends and vacations.