The one million artillery shells that North Korea sent to Russia should not cause undue concern, former Aidar Battalion company commander Yevhen Dykyi told Radio NV on November 3.
Russia produces about 1.1 million shells a year, and North Korea has sent almost the same number to Russia, “but… a million European or American shells and a million North Korean shells, as they say in my beloved Odessa, are two very big differences .” [in quality].”
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “decided to flex his muscles” and ordered 2,400 shells to be fired at a deserted island in 2020.
“Of those 2,400 shells, only 400 reached the island. And of those 400, about 80 exploded. So now we take the quality of Korean production.” [into consideration]4% of shells fired actually exploded where they were supposed to. “Now we multiply a million by 4% and get what real help Comrade Un Comrade Putin was able to provide,” Dykyi explained, suggesting that North Korea only provided Russia with about 40,000 working grenades.
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Dykyi suspected that the instructors from Pyongyang may have come with the grenades because “Russian artillerymen may simply be afraid to use these ‘masterpieces of the neighboring defense industry’ because it is not known how many of them exploded directly in the guns.”
North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia, which are expected to supply Russia for about two months, Bloomberg reported on November 1.
Over the past two months, Russian ships have repeatedly picked up cargo from North Korea and delivered it to a Russian military port, new satellite images published by The Washington Post on October 16 show.
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Pyongyang has reportedly supplied Moscow with Katyusha artillery shells and rockets.
North Korea may have supplied Russia with short-range ballistic missiles and man-portable anti-aircraft missiles as well as artillery shells for its war in Ukraine, Yonhap news agency reported on November 2, citing a senior South Korean military official. Pyongyang may also have supplied other weapons to Russia, including T-series tank ammunition, anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers, rifles and machine guns, and possibly short-range ballistic missiles.
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