Russian Missiles That Hit Ukraine's Kharkiv Reportedly Coming From North Korea

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JAKARTA - The debris from the missile that landed in Ukraine's Kharkiv city on January 2, comes from North Korea's Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, the UN sanctions monitor told the Security Council committee in the report.

As reported by Reuters on Tuesday, April 30, in the 32-page report, the UN sanctions monitor concluded that the debris found from the missile that hit Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 2, 2024 came from the DPRK Hwasong-11 series missile. This is said to have violated the arms embargo against North Korea.

North Korea is under UN sanctions for its ballistic and nuclear missile programs since 2006.

Three monitors traveled to Ukraine earlier this month to inspect the debris and found no evidence of the missile being made by Russia. They could not independently identify where the missile was launched, or by whom.

"Information provided by Ukrainian authorities suggests the missile was launched on the territory of the Russian Federation," they wrote in a April 25 report to the North Korean sanctions committee on the Security Council.

Such a location, if the missile was under the control of Russian troops, might indicate procurement by citizens of the Russian Federation, they said, adding it was a violation of the arms embargo imposed on North Korea in 2006.