It is noted that the invaders hid a rare North Korean self -propelled artillery installation in a forest planting, but Ukrainian air intelligence officers found it, and the drone struck the artistanism with an accurate blow.
The Ukrainian military explained that the Koksan self -propelled DPRK was equipped with a 170 mm caliber gun. The range of its firing with a fragmentation and fluent shell reaches 43 km, and with active-reactive-54–60 km, which makes it one of the most long-range receiver artistystei, which use the RF Armed Forces.
The speed of the self-propelled SAU is two shots for five minutes, and eight people are serviced by this machine (driver, commander, gunner and five charge/trays).
The Speaker of the OSGV Khortitsa Nazar Voloshin spoke in the comment of Liga.net that this is not the first destruction of the North Korean self -propelled guns. According to him, the first confirmed case of Koksan was in January 2025 in the Luhansk region. Fighters of the 412th regiment of unmanned Nemesis systems used the night drone bomber. Five more such artistances were destroyed in March and several more in April.
Voloshin explained that the invaders began to use Koksan more often because of their own lack. In total, since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of Russians, the defense forces of Ukraine destroyed more than 26 thousand artisty of the Russian Federation, the military added.
“But whatever the installation or gun, it will be destroyed by our defense forces,” Voloshin emphasized.
Context
The DPRK supports Russia-aggressor in the war against Ukraine. In particular, about The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky told the participation of the forces of North Korea on the side of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region on December 14, 2024.
North Korea also transfers to Russia artisyads and missiles. In January 2025, the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, said that this year Pyongyang plans Pass Moscow at least 150 KN-23 low-range ballistic missiles, as well as artillery shells and systems.
