Ukraine uses North Korean rockets -Financial Times
Ukrainian soldiers were observed using North Korean rockets that they said were seized by a "friendly" country before being delivered to Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Saturday (July 29). - REUTERS
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00:00 A Saturday report by the Financial Times newspaper says, somewhere near the destroyed eastern
00:06 city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian troops operating Soviet-era launch systems were seen using
00:13 rockets from North Korea.
00:16 It adds, troops said the weapons had been seized by a friendly country and then delivered
00:22 to Ukraine.
00:23 Ukraine's defense ministry suggested the arms were captured from the Russians, according
00:28 to the report.
00:30 The U.S. has accused North Korea of providing arms to Russia, but it hasn't offered proof,
00:36 and North Korean weapons have not been widely observed on Ukraine's battlefields.
00:41 North Korea and Russia deny conducting arms transactions.
00:46 The newspaper report comes just days after Russia's defense minister, Sergei Shoigu,
00:50 paid a rare visit to Pyongyang to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean
00:55 War.
00:56 It was the first visit of its kind since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
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