North Korea has stopped the supply of shells to Russia.

Russian ships, which have been regularly shuttling between ports in North Korea and Russia since last fall, have stopped making voyages. For almost three weeks, containers have not been delivered from the DPRK, in which, according to Western and South Korean intelligence and military experts, shells used by Russian troops in Ukraine were transported.

Deliveries from the Korean port of Rajin have been carried out since the end of August, four container ships - Maya 1, Angara, Maria and Lady R - participated in them with varying intensity, accroding to the Seoul-based information and analytical portal NK Pro. He is monitoring the situation, evaluating satellite images provided by the American Planet Labs.

The ships made at least 32 voyages to North Korea. They ran between Rajin and two ports in the Primorsky Territory - in the village of Danube in Konyushkov Bay and the port of Vostochny near Nakhodka. The cargoes were then delivered by rail to Tikhoretsk in the Krasnodar region, located 200 km from the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov. Earlier, Maya 1, Angara and Maria were also identified by experts from the Royal United Services Institute, the Vienna-based Open Nuclear Network and British military intelligence.

The container ship Lady R was engaged in transportation until the end of October, then was in Vladivostok (apparently for scheduled repairs), on January 16 received a certificate, including for the transportation of dangerous goods, and then made another voyage, visiting Rajin on February 4, writes NK Pro. This, according to him, was the penultimate voyage of Russian ships: on February 12, Maya-1 arrived in Rajin. Since then, satellites have not recorded a single voyage to the Korean port.

It is unclear if this is due to production problems at DPRK weapons factories or another logistic issue. It also cannot be ruled out that weapons are being transferred to Russia by air or by rail.

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