Russia blows up its own North Korea-made SAM in Kursk “friendly fire”
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-blows-north-korean-missile-2013945
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Russia blows up its own North Korea-made SAM in Kursk “friendly fire”
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-blows-north-korean-missile-2013945
by newsweek
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By Isabel van Brugen — News Reporter |
Russia reportedly blew up one of its surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems believed to have been shipped to Moscow by Pyongyang, in the border region of Kursk, where a fresh incursion by Ukraine is underway.
Newsweek reached out to the Kremlin for comment via email on Monday.
Russian military bloggers on Telegram initially said Russian troops had destroyed a system supplied to Ukraine by the West. But analysis by Alexander Kovalenko, a prominent Ukrainian military and political analyst, found that Russia destroyed the SAM in a case of “friendly fire,” the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency first reported.
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