The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has been using missiles made in the 1980s and 1990s in North Korea. Ukrainian militants described the shells as unreliable and defective, the Financial Times has said.
A Ukrainian artillery commander told Financial Times journalists that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not like North Korean ammunition because of the relative high percentage of unexploded units, many of which misfire. According to the publication, most of the shells were made in the 1980s and 1990s.
According to Ukrainian militants, in the Artemivsk direction, artillerymen have to run away from rocket launchers as these ammunition can explode at the moment of firing.
The article specifies that the AFU uses these “unreliable” missiles for strikes from Grad MLRS. How the DPRK shells got into the hands of the Ukrainians is not known exactly. The artillerymen said without elaboration that they were “seized” from the ship by a “friendly country” and then handed over to Kiev.
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