UN: A North Korean ballistic missile has been used to attack the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine
United Nations sanctions investigators have told the United Nations Security Council sanctions committee that the missile debris found in the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine on January 2 is from a North Korean Hwasong-11 ballistic missile.
In their 32-page report, the United Nations sanctions inspectors have come to the conclusion that the debris found on the missile that landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 2, 2024 came from a North Korean Hwasong-11 missile and is a violation of sanctions. the weapon placed in that country.
North Korea has been under UN sanctions over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs since 2006, and those measures have been tightened for several years now.
According to the report of the experts, the information provided by the Ukrainian authorities about the route where the missile took place shows that it was launched from within the territory of the Russian Federation.
United Nations investigators have said that the Hwasong-11 ballistic missiles were publicly tested by Pyongyang in 2019.
The United States and other Western countries have accused North Korea of having sent weapons to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine, accusations that Moscow and Pyongyang have denied despite promising last year that they would strengthen their military ties.
At the Security Council meeting in February, Washington accused Moscow of having fired at least nine North Korean ballistic missiles against Ukraine through a special military operation launched against the country in February 2022.../
