Overview
- HUR’s Vadym Skibitskyi told Reuters that deliveries have fallen by more than half this year after sustaining Russian fire rates in 2024.
- No shipments were recorded from North Korea in September, and only limited deliveries were detected in October, according to the assessment.
- Ukraine’s intelligence cites a cumulative 6.5 million artillery shells sent from North Korea to Russia since 2023.
- About half of the munitions supplied by Pyongyang were so old they needed reworking at Russian factories, the assessment says.
- Skibitskyi said North Korea has begun mass-producing FPV and medium-range attack drones on its own territory, without specifying output levels.