We are talking about about three million units of ammunition per year.
The Times, citing a source of Western intelligence, claims that North Korea provides Russia with half of all artillery shells that the aggressor uses on the battlefield in Ukraine. Such dependence of the occupiers on supplies from the DPRK was formed after the Kremlin dictator Putin personally visited Pyongyang at the beginning of the year. The total number of ammunition in question could be around three million units per year.
Despite the fact that some of them are faulty, it is the scale of the supplies that ensures the Russians' advancement at the front. At the same time, the occupiers' losses amount to around 1,200 soldiers per day, of which almost half were lost in the battles for Pokrovsk alone.
Intelligence believes that the Russians are not capable of simultaneously capturing Pokrovsk and pushing Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region without declaring mobilization, but the Kremlin has not yet decided to take such a step. There is also no talk of negotiations in the near future.
- The DPRK has threatened to use nuclear weapons if anyone “threatens its sovereignty.”