{"id":24848,"date":"2024-12-23T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=24848"},"modified":"2024-12-23T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:25:28","slug":"about-60-of-the-ammunition-used-by-russia-to-shell-ukraine-comes-from-dprk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/about-60-of-the-ammunition-used-by-russia-to-shell-ukraine-comes-from-dprk\/","title":{"rendered":"About 60% of the ammunition used by Russia to shell Ukraine comes from DPRK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global-body-font-family);\">Satellite images reveal that North Korea is shipping more munitions to Russia while also ramping up its weapons production to support Moscow, The Wall Street Journal reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation and an officer of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, told the newspaper that 60% of the artillery and mortar shells Russia uses in Ukraine now come from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Korean ammunition is holding the Russian defenses,\u201d Kovalenko stated.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite imagery also shows an expansion of the Hwasong-11 ballistic missile production complex (known in the West as KN-23 and KN-24), the same missiles Russia has used to target Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to Washington and Seoul, North Korea has sent approximately 20,000 containers of ammunition to Russia. These shipments include 122 mm and 152 mm artillery shells, as well as the latest Hwasong-11 ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, nearly 200 North Korean munitions factories are operating at full capacity, with Russia supplying fuel and equipment to sustain weapons production in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite images reveal that North Korea is shipping more munitions to Russia while also ramping up its weapons production to support Moscow, The Wall Street Journal reports. Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation and an officer of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, told the newspaper that 60% of the artillery and mortar shells&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":55,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}