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Against the backdrop of its enormous military losses in Ukraine and sanctions re...

Putin in despair. US intelligence has data on the purchase of Russian artillery in the DPRK - The New York Times

Against the backdrop of its enormous military losses in Ukraine and sanctions restrictions, the Kremlin regime is trying to agree on military assistance with the Hollow States, reports The New York Times, citing US intelligence. In particular, the Russian Federation buys artillery installations and shells to them in North Korea. At the same time, information about the scale of supplies from the DPRK is not disclosed.

"The Kremlin should be disturbed by the fact that it has to buy something in North Korea," said Mason Clark, the head of the Russian Group of the Institute of War. Video of the day at first its hopes of the Russian Federation laid on China, which could provide its army bypassing export control, but in Beijing, fearing US pressure, decided not to risk what Moscow had nothing left to ask for help from Tehran. and Pyongyan.

In order to get the drone for his army, the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin even had to go to Iran in July. Earlier, he tried to negotiate with Turkish Baykar, which produces Bayraktar UAV, but the CEO of the company assured that he would never go for it because he fully support Ukraine. At the same time, according to The Washington Post, the Russian Armed Forces obtained were dissatisfied, because during the tests, Russian experts encountered numerous systemic errors in their work.

As for the DPRK artillery, it is not necessary to count on its high quality because of outdated production, but due to the loss of considerable amount of its equipment in Ukraine, there is no great choice in Russia. According to the military expert of the American Institute of Entrepreneurship, Frederick Kagan, 152 mm self-wickets and jet systems of the Katyush volley fire, developed during the Second World War.