The United States has claimed that North Korea delivered infantry rockets and missiles to the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group last month for its use against Ukraine.
“We can confirm that North Korea has completed an initial arms delivery to Wagner, which paid for that equipment,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Thursday.
Kirby did not specify how many weapons Wagner had received from North Korea, but he said that the United States assessed that it “will not change the battlefield dynamics in Ukraine.”
He noted that Wagner is spending over $100 million monthly on its operations in Ukraine, deploying about 50,000 personnel, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts recruited from Russian prisons….