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UNIAN, photo ua.depositphotos.com, Igor Lutsenko’s Facebook page. The Russian occupiers do not have a very rosy situation with producing their own missiles, so obtaining North Korean missiles would be a very big plus for them.
In a comment to UNIAN, Igor Lutsenko, commander of a drone-operator unit and founder of the Center for Air Reconnaissance Support, said this.
Answering questions about the advantages and disadvantages of the North Korean missiles that Russia has received, and what the greater-threat from them consists of, Lutsenko said that “their main advantage is that they exist.”
“The Russians are not in a very rosy situation with missile production. And that there will be another several dozen missiles per day is a very big plus for them,” he said, recalling that Ukraine has problems countering ballistic missiles.
At the same time, Lutsenko emphasized that the KN-30 missile can carry a warhead weighing up to 2 500 kg, meaning an increased weight of the warhead, which, accordingly, poses an elevated danger to Ukrainian production capacities and headquarters.
Lutsenko also noted that how many of these missiles Russia can launch at once will depend on the number of launchers.
“We need to have our own missiles that will destroy these launchers.”
North Korean ballistic missiles against Ukraine
As reported, Russia is deploying launchers for North Korean missiles in the Voronezh region, which could potentially strike seven Ukrainian regions. These are Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
According to Ukrainian military intelligence data, Moscow has already received about 50 missiles KN-23, KN-24, and upgraded KN-30. At the same time, particular attention is drawn to KN-30 (Hwansong-11C) — an upgraded version of the KN-23 missile, which, according to available data, is capable of carrying a warhead weighing up to 2 500 kg.
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