Russia has turned to North Korea for support throughout its four-and-a-half-year invasion. And intelligence from the West, Kyiv and Seoul, has long accused North Korea of supplying weapons to Russia. "The city was struck with North Korean ballistic missiles, Zircons, and guided aerial bombs. On Monday (August 10), he said that Russia had received "additional ballistic missiles from North Korea". In recent weeks, Russia has considerably stepped up strikes with ballistic missiles — a fast and powerful weapon that is hard to intercept.