Russia claims its forces have shot down eight ballistic missiles launched by Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to state media. Meanwhile, a far-right NATO critic who wants to end support for Ukraine has won the most votes in a shock election result in Romania.
North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing plant that assembles short-range missiles to be used by Russia, researchers at a US-based think tank have said. Satellite images show what appears to be a building under construction at the site, as well as a housing facility, experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies found.The site, known as the February 11 plant, is part of the Ryongsong Machine Complex in North Korea's second-largest city of Hamhung.
Sam Lair, a research associate at CNS, said the plant was the only one known to produce the Hwasong-11 class of solid-fuel ballistic missiles.'We see this as a suggestion that they're massively increasing, or they're trying to significantly increase, the throughput of this factory,' he said. Ukrainian officials say these munitions - known as the KN-23 in the West - have been used by Russian forces in their assault on Ukraine.
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