Reports credit North Korea’s newest missile of terror with 2.5-ton warhead and 900-km range. Expert explains why those numbers can’t both be true
Russia may receive up to 150 North Korean missiles, including the KN-30.
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Russia’s North Korean missiles could threaten Kyiv and six other regions, ISW says
Moscow is expected to keep saving ballistic and cruise missiles for periodic mass attacks designed to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses.
Ukraine says Russia can’t replace its losses, plans mass draft after elections—and again in 2027
The claimed call-up comes as Russian battlefield losses overtake contract recruitment, which threatens Moscow’s offensive capabilities.
North Korean ballistic missile kills 7 steelworkers on their way to shelter, shuts down Zaporizhstal plant
The strike comes as Russia expands its use of North Korean KN-23 and KN-24 ballistic missiles, which are harder for Ukraine to intercept and have been linked to deadly attacks on civilians.
Seoul says no again to Ukraine’s weapons request as Pyongyang gets ready to send Russia more troops
South Korea arms NATO members with K2 tanks and K9 howitzers that free up older kit for the front, yet still draws the line at any direct transfer to Kyiv.
Zelenskyy says Russia could receive up to 50,000 North Korean troops
Kyiv says North Korean deployment numbers have grown from hundreds to tens of thousands within roughly two months, according to Ukrainian estimates.
North Korea made $22 billion arming Russia – nearly four times its haul before the war
The war financed a boom that now buys destroyers, warheads, and the freedom to stop talking to Washington.
North Korean missile unit deploys to Russia for ballistic strikes on Ukraine, Kyiv says
Russia is reportedly deploying a North Korean missile unit in western Russia, potentially adding 120 ballistic missiles to an arsenal increasingly used against Ukraine's cities.
The most in any month this year: Russia fired 126 ballistic missiles at Ukraine in July
The count of Iskander-M, North Korean, and repurposed air-defense missiles topped every month since January, a monitoring channel tracking the launches found.
Russia can’t fill its own ranks—so it asks North Korea for 30,000 more soldiers and new missile launchers, Ukraine says
Ukrainian intelligence points to reception sites readied in Voronezh Oblast since June, President Zelenskyy said.
300 defense factories, 500,000 workers: North Korea’s arms industry reaches records amid Russia’s demand for shells in war
North Korea claims current shell production has quadrupled compared to normal levels.
9 May parade Russia held without single tank featured one thing Moscow has never shown before
This is who Russia is now.
Kim Jong Un urges North Korean youth aged 14 to 30 to fight for Russia after losing 6,000 troops in Kursk
At a Pyongyang youth congress, Kim Jong Un cast 14- to 30-year-olds as the "vanguard" of state goals while the ruling party praised dead soldiers in Russia's war as "bombs and flames."
Russia’s close ally now has enough nuclear warheads and delivery systems to breach US missile defense
North Korea, one of the closest allies of Russia, already possesses enough nuclear warheads and delivery systems to…
Ukraine just X-rayed Russia’s $100,000 drone — and found components from China, Taiwan, and Switzerland
Only the EU is sanctioning the factory behind this drone. That's the problem.
EU summit backs Ukraine’s €90 billion loan and opens all accession clusters — but Orbán and Fico still block the money
25 EU leaders formally endorsed Ukraine's loan disbursement by early April and invited the Council to open all EU accession clusters without delay. Hungary and Slovakia declined to support the conclusions.
Before Russia’s all-out war, Ukraine imported almost no weapons. Four years later, it buys more than any country on Earth
Even as Washington reduced military aid to Ukraine in 2025, European states, Australia, and Canada stepped up deliveries, with 25 countries buying US-made weapons under the PURL mechanism specifically for transfer to Kyiv, SIPRI reported.
North Koreans march with Russian flags through Pyongyang as Ukraine counts 6,000 of their dead in Kursk
Ukrainian intelligence says veterans are being redeployed as instructors in drone operations and artillery, accelerating Pyongyang's military modernization.
UNGA backs Ukraine’s peace resolution with 107 votes, rejects US push to drop territorial integrity
On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, 69 countries voted down Washington's proposal to strip sovereignty and territorial integrity language from the text — only 11 backed the US move.
North Korean artillery caught firing at Kupiansk, hit three times by drones
The 170mm Koksan self-propelled gun was firing toward Kupiansk from occupied Luhansk Oblast when a recon drone's thermal camera spotted its hot barrel. Three FPV drone strikes followed.