Russia is lobbing North Korean-made ballistic missiles at Ukraine from positions just north of the Russia-Ukraine border.
At least one open-source analyst believes Russia’s new North Korean missiles struck a pair of Ukrainian army logistics bases in recent days, destroying as many as 10 valuable tanker trucks.
Russia’s acquisition of KN-23s—7,500-pound, solid-fuel rockets with 1,100-pound warheads—represents a major escalation of Russia’s 23-month wider war on Ukraine.
International sanctions bar North Korea from exporting its homegrown rockets.
Moscow’s aim obviously is to launch more missiles than Ukraine, with its limited supply of air-defense batteries and missile-reloads, can intercept.
Ukraine makes its own long-range attack drones, and also has modified its old S-200 surface-to-air missiles into 300-mile-range surface-strike weapons.
Until the Republicans decide to support Ukraine over Russia, Russia can continue lobbing four-ton North Korean rockets at an increasingly defenseless Ukraine. »