{"id":1633960,"date":"2022-09-06T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633960"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:19:42","slug":"us-says-russia-buying-artillery-ammo-from-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-says-russia-buying-artillery-ammo-from-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"US Says Russia Buying Artillery Ammo From North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-says-russia-buying-artillery-ammo-from-north-korea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633960&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. intelligence has assessed that Moscow is buying millions of<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0artillery\u00a0<\/span>shells and rockets from North Korea, the New York Times reported, on the heels of reports that the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>n military has begun using Iranian-made drones.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said they could confirm that the New York Times reporting was accurate and that additional<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>n purchases of North Korean military equipment were expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>n Ministry of Defense is in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0artillery\u00a0<\/span>shells from North Korea for use on the battlefield in Ukraine,&#8221; an official said by email when asked about the paper&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the purchases indicated that the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>n military &#8220;continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine, due in part to export controls and sanctions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia\u00a0<\/span>could try to purchase additional North Korean military equipment going forward,&#8221; said the official, who did not want to be identified by name.<\/p>\n<p>The Times quoted U.S. government officials as saying that the purchases showed U.S.-led sanctions had begun to bite and to reduce<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>\u2018s ability to sustain its invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow has called a &#8220;special military operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The paper&#8217;s report on Monday said the recently declassified intelligence provided no details about what was purchased, beyond saying that the items included<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0artillery\u00a0<\/span>shells and rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a U.S. official told Reuters that<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>\u2018s Iranian-made drones had suffered &#8220;numerous failures&#8221;. The official said<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia\u00a0<\/span>most likely planned to acquire hundreds of Mohajer-6 and Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine recently launched counteroffensives in several locations, including around Kherson, which<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia\u00a0<\/span>has occupied since early in the invasion. In preparation for those attacks, Ukrainian forces struck<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>n supply areas, including those containing<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0artillery\u00a0<\/span>and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have said Western sanctions are limiting<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Russia<\/span>\u2018s ability to replace vehicles and weapons destroyed in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>(Rerporting and writing by Gerry Doyle and David Brunnstrom; Editing by Stephen Coates and Michael Perry)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. intelligence has assessed that Moscow is buying millions of\u00a0artillery\u00a0shells and rockets from North Korea, the New York Times reported, on the heels of reports that the\u00a0Russian military<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}