'Financial Times': Ukraine used rockets made in North Korea

'Financial Times': Ukraine used rockets made in North Korea

Jul 30, 2023 - 12:57
'Financial Times': Ukraine used rockets made in North Korea
'Financial Times': Ukraine used rockets made in North Korea


The Ukrainian military has used rockets made in North Korea against Russian military positions. He reported it to the newspaper "Financial Times". It was unclear how the munitions ended up in Ukrainian hands but soldiers the newspaper spoke to said it was seized by a "friendly country" and later handed over to Ukraine as part of a military aid package. Instead, according to the spokesman for the Kiev Defense Ministry, Yuriy Sak, the Ukrainian troops managed to seize the ammunition directly from the Russian forces. “We are taking their tanks, their equipment and it is quite possible that this is the result of a successful military operation by the Ukrainian military,” Sak said. The rockets in question, produced between the 1980s and 1990s, were used by the Grad multiple rocket launchers that Ukraine deployed near the Bakhmut locality, reported the "Financial Times".