{"id":185425,"date":"2026-08-11T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/185425\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:19:22","slug":"russia-uses-north-korean-missiles-in-attack-that-killed-6-in-ukraine-zelenskyy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/185425\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia uses North Korean missiles in attack that killed 6 in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says"},"content":{"rendered":"

KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Russian forces killed six people early on Tuesday in an attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia that involved North Korean ballistic missiles, \u200bPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

Six others were killed overnight in the Ukrainian regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk, and a Russian attack on Kyiv caused fires in the capital, Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n

Regional governor Ivan Fedorov posted photos online showing \u200cbuildings and vehicles ablaze in Zaporizhzhia, where officials said 20 people had also been wounded.<\/p>\n

“The city was hit by North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircons (anti-ship missiles) and KABs (precision-guided aerial \u2060bombs),” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n

“A brutal attack calculated to inflict \u200bmaximum damage on civilian infrastructure.”<\/p>\n

Russia did not immediately say whether \u2060it had used North Korean missiles in the attack on Zaporizhzhia. There was no comment from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its \u200cforces had struck the Nova Poshta \u200csorting complex in Kyiv which it said was used to store and distribute dual-use goods, including components \u2060for drones and electronic warfare equipment.<\/p>\n

Russian forces also struck a metallurgical plant in \u2060Zaporizhzhia that produces flat-rolled steel which it said was used by the Ukrainian military, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

The attacks followed a Ukrainian drone strike that Russian authorities said on Monday had killed at least 13 people and wounded 39 in the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk, one of the heaviest civilian tolls in Russia in months.<\/p>\n

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, there is no end in sight to a war that has killed many thousands of people, mostly in \u200cUkraine, devastated towns and cities, and forces millions of Ukrainians from their homes.<\/p>\n

Russia has continued \u200bheavy bombardments of Ukraine, trying to exploit Ukraine’s shortage of high-end air defenses by using more ballistic missiles, which are particularly hard to shoot down.<\/p>\n

Kyiv has increasingly been striking Russia, including hitting oil refineries and warehouses used by e-commerce retailer Wildberries. Ukraine said on Tuesday it had targeted an oil refinery in the Russian city of Orsk in its latest strikes.<\/p>\n

North Korean links with Russia<\/p>\n

Reuters cited an official at Ukraine’s military intelligence agency last week as saying a North Korean missile unit had begun deploying to western Russia and could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers for \u200bstrikes on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russia has fired scores of North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine since late 2023, but the deployment of North Korean missile forces would be \u200can expansion of \u200cthe already extensive military \u2060cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said on X on Saturday that “a decision has been made for 30,000 to 50,000 North Koreans to be deployed on the territory of Russia” to fight for Moscow. He had previously provided an estimate of 30,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

Russia and North Korea signed a comprehensive strategic partnership treaty two years ago including a mutual assistance provision if either faced external aggression. North Korea \u200csent an estimated 14,000 soldiers to \u200bRussia’s Kursk Region in 2024 after an incursion into the region by Ukrainian \u200cforces.<\/p>\n

North Korea has also supplied Russia \u2060with millions of artillery \u200band mortar rounds, ballistic missiles, long-range artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, according to Ukrainian and independent assessments.<\/p>\n

\n The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Russian forces killed six people early on Tuesday in an attack on the southeastern Ukrainian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[130],"tags":[5397,5999,1700,6000,4267,836,1411,1332,50,51,6001,6002,113,5280,5998,6003,325,672],"class_list":["post-185425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-crime","tag-homes","tag-international","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-military","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117077787453658161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}