Half of Russia’s North Korea-Made Artillery Shells Don’t Work: Ukraine

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Half of more than a million artillery shells shipped to Russia from North Korea are faulty, a senior Ukrainian defense official has said. Vadym Skibitsky, No. 2 at Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate, the defense intelligence agency also known as the GUR, said the Kremlin had turned to its reclusive Asian neighbor to complement Russia's limited arms production, but with mixed results. Skibitsky's comments were given to the Interfax Ukraine news agency on February 23, on the eve of the two-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, which has become a gruelling war of attrition that continues to test the resolve of...