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“Russia’s war resources other than manpower are drying up… Judgment day is approaching.”
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un meets with President Putin
(Pyongyang Korean Central News Agency = Yonhap News) North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un held a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Amur Region on the 13th (local time), the Korean Central News Agency reported on the 14th. 2023.9.14
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Jin-hyung = The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency assessed that the North Korea-Russia summit between North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly shows that Russia is on the verge of depleting its war resources.
Lieutenant General Kirillo Budanov, director of the Military Intelligence Service (HUR) of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with the British current affairs weekly The Economist published on the 17th (local time) that the North Korea-Russia summit held on the 13th clearly shows the difficulties faced by Putin. revealed.
“If everything is going well and Russia has enough resources, why is it looking for resources all over the world?” Budanov said. “The answer is clear: there is nothing more to squeeze.”
He said that Russia’s human resources are “low in quality, but sufficient in quantity,” and that Russia’s remaining strength is in numbers.
However, other resources needed for Russia’s war are being depleted, and it is predicted that ‘Judgment Day’ is approaching.
In particular, the Russian economy is expected to last only until 2025, and weapons supplies will dry up by 2026 or even before.
However, the economist added that the evidence supporting his prediction was ‘fragmentary.’
[그래픽] What did North Korea and Russia exchange?
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporters Kim Young-eun and Kim Min-ji = North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un left for North Korea on a private train after completing a 5-night, 6-day visit to Russia on the 17th (local time). There are speculations that at this North Korea-Russia summit, a deal was made in which North Korea would provide military materials such as artillery shells and missiles to Russia, and Russia would support cutting-edge technology needed to secure military reconnaissance satellites. [email protected] Twitter @yonhap_graphics Facebook tuney.kr/LeYN1
Director Budanov also denied the observation that Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which began last June, was slow and likely to fail.
He insisted that a major counteroffensive was underway and that there was still more than a month left before the ‘Rasputitsa’ phenomenon, in which Ukrainian soil turns to mud in the fall and spring, making advancement difficult.
Rather, he said that it is Russia, not Ukraine, that should be anxious, and that there are already several holes in the Russian army’s first line of defense along the most important southern axis of Zaporizhja.
Therefore, the operation to cut off the land corridor between mainland Russia and the Crimean Peninsula may be successful before winter.
He acknowledged that while Russia relies mostly on its own resources, there is a risk that Ukraine may become resource-poor due to its heavy dependence on external sources.
In relation to this, there are also observations from some parts of the Ukrainian government that changes have begun to appear in Western countries’ support stance for Ukraine.
There is also talk that the supply of ammunition to Ukraine will soon dry up, forcing the counteroffensive to end.
But Director Budanov dismissed these concerns, saying, “No matter what anyone says, warehouses in Western countries are not completely empty.”
Recently, Ukraine has also gradually increased its own weapons production and is focusing on producing unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and long-range missiles that can strike beyond the front lines.
Military intelligence played a leading role in last week’s operation in which Ukraine attacked the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, with cruise missiles and drones.
He proposed the three main goals of operations using drones: depleting Russia’s air defense capabilities, paralyzing Russian military transport and bombing functions, and striking production facilities such as weapons.
He also added that psychological warfare, such as spreading the perception among the Russian people that there is no longer a ‘safe rear’, increasing internal unrest and disrupting normal economic activities, is a secondary goal of the drone offensive.
Kirillo Budanov, Director of Military Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR)
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