Foreign Policy: Only Thanks To One Country Putin Can Still Wage War Against Ukraine

• 4.10.2024, 12:51

Yet its assistance is unreliable.

Only thanks to the DPRK the Kremlin can still wage its war in Ukraine. At that, many shells were produced a long time ago, but they are still in the service of the DPRK.

American military experts write that only thanks to Pyongyang the Russian Federation can still fight against the Ukrainian armed forces. At that, the DPRK has a lot of shells, even though most of them are unreliable, the resource Foreign Policy informs.

As of the summer of 2024, the DPRK supplied the Russian Federation with about 2 million shells. Most of them were defective.

The expert on weapons of the DPRK Van Diepen said that even despite the large amount of defects among artillery shells, the Russian Federation can still fight against the AFU.

The main tactic of the Russian Federation is to release as many artillery shells as possible before the offensive.

Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment agrees that the DPRK's artillery shells are unreliable, but their quantity also affects the war in Ukraine.

Experts say that DPRK shells allow the Russian Federation to have a 3-to-1 advantage on the battlefield. It is Russia's large number of shells, although they are of poor quality, that alarms both Kyiv and the West.