Russia has requested powerful ballistic missiles from North Korea, Kyiv’s intelligence said, in addition to Moscow’s currently deployed DPRK short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) variants like the KN-23 and KN-24.

“Moscow has asked Pyongyang for new North Korean KN-30 ballistic missiles, which are three times more powerful than the KN-23/24, but no transfer of these missiles from North Korea to Russia has been recorded so far,” the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) announced on Telegram on Thursday.

The DIU post cited representative Andrii Cherniak’s recent media interview, in which he said Moscow is currently in negotiations with Pyongyang over “another