Forbes: Russia Has Shown Critical Weakness In The War

Moscow is incapable of winning on its own.

North Korea's involvement in the war in Ukraine is becoming more prominent, and this support shows just how weak Russia really is. Professor Natasha Lindstedt of the University of Essex writes about this in an article for Forbes.

As the article notes, the benefits of this partnership are clear for Russia, as it desperately needs more troops.

"Given the losses, Putin cannot risk another politically unpopular mobilization campaign. Using non-Russian fighters gives Putin time to rebuild his army ... Although Putin has recruited from Somalia, Sierra Leone, Cuba, and Nepal, the partnership with North Korea offered more advantages and a much greater flow of troop deployments," Lindstedt writes.

North Korea is not only supplying Russia with troops, but also weapons. Since Russia has lost a large amount of military hardware (nearly 13,000 tanks and armored vehicles and over 300 aircraft have been destroyed), it is in dire need of supplies.

Some of the weapons provided by North Korea include 200 long-range artillery systems, over a hundred short-range ballistic missiles such as KN-23 and KN-24 missiles, fifty 240mm multiple rocket launchers, and twenty 170mm self-propelled guns or howitzers.

In addition, since September 2023, North Korea has shipped more than 15,000 containers that likely contained billions of weapons, including up to nine million artillery shells. Since Russia's war with Ukraine relies heavily on artillery, this "injection" from North Korea has helped immensely.

At the same time, many North Korean munitions were unreliable, inaccurate, and old. In addition, North Korea cannot match the scale or efficiency of Western arms manufacturers.

So North Korea's arms support may not be sustainable in the long term; it is mostly a temporary measure to help Russia regroup, the article notes.

"At the same time, Kim Jong Un's willingness to risk more lives and supply a huge arsenal of weapons gives Moscow a critical buffer. It also demonstrates that Russia is incapable of winning this war on its own."

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