KYIV (Reuters) – Russia fired missiles supplied by North Korea at Ukraine, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak said on Friday, confirming an earlier assertion by Washington.
“They are no longer hiding (…) As part of its genocidal war, the Russian Federation for the first time struck the territory of Ukraine with missiles supplied by (…) North Korea” , wrote Mikhaïlo Podolyak on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Earlier on Friday, state media quoted the governor of eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region as saying that missiles produced outside Russia had been fired at the province in late December and early January.
“(Russia) attacks Ukrainians with missiles received from a state where citizens are tortured in concentration camps for possessing an unregistered radio, for talking to a tourist or for watching television broadcasts” , said Mikhailo Podolyak.
The adviser did not provide proof that the missiles were North Korean. In its statement on Thursday, Washington referred to declassified intelligence.
(Reporting Max Hunder; French version Dagmarah Mackos, editing by Kate Entringer)
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