Ukraine Situation Report: North Korea Covertly Arming Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Given concerns about Iranian SRBMs and drones going to Russia, the GUR on Wednesday asked for help in identifying supply routes."Please provide any information that will help determine the logistical routes of the supply of Iranian weapons and identify the specific persons responsible for these supplies," the GUR said on its Telegram page.
51% : The White House announcement on Wednesday comes as Ukrainian intelligence says Russia will soon receive more drones as well as the first shipments of short-range ballistic missiles from Iran.
51% : It is seeking information about those responsible for organizing the supplies, where they live and work, the location of logistic nodes including geolocations of warehouses and railway stations and ports where the arms will be shipped, GUR also wants to know "exact routes by which military goods are moved from Iran to the Russian Federation - license plate numbers and photos of the road and sea transport that moves these cargoes."
50% : Those shipments will be followed "in a few weeks" by the delivery from Iran to Russia of short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) via direct flights to Russia and over the Caspian, a source in Ukrainian intelligence told The War Zone on Tuesday.
49% : It also is indicative of where they're seeking munitions from - countries like North Korea and Iran - which says a lot about the kind of company they keep and where they stand in the world right now in terms of isolation."
49% : Over the next few days, Iran is planning to send more than 200 additional combat drones to Russia via the Caspian Sea, according to the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence directorate (GUR).
39% : U.S. government officials said Russia's decision to turn to Iran, and now North Korea, was a sign that sanctions and export controls imposed by the United States and Europe were hurting Moscow's ability to obtain supplies for its army."
38% :The Russian Defense Ministry (MOD) confirmed that Russia was ending its suspension of the deal, saying that the United Nations and Turkey had helped obtain Kyiv's "written guarantees" not to use the grain corridor for military action against Russia.

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