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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,149: RU forces recently advanced near Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Velyka Novosilka [1]
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Date: 2025-04-16
Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on April 15 to 16.
Ukrainian forces struck the base of a Russian missile brigade in Ivanovo Oblast. Geolocated footage published on April 16 indicates that Ukrainian drones struck the Russian 112th Missile Brigade (1st Guards Tank Army [GTA], Moscow Military District [MMD]) in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast. [31] Russian opposition outlet Astra reported that Ukrainian forces struck near the base of the 112th Missile Brigade. [32] The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that Russian forces destroyed seven drones over Ivanovo Oblast, and the Ivanovo Oblast operational headquarters claimed that Russian forces repelled a drone strike in Shuya. [33]
Russia is reportedly heavily dependent on North Korean artillery ammunition as North Korea continues to learn lessons from Russia's war against Ukraine. Reuters published a joint investigation with UK-based research organization Open Source Center (OSC) on April 15 detailing the extent of Russia's dependence on North Korean artillery and the evolution of North Korean forces' participation in fighting alongside Russian forces. [7] Reuters and the OSC tracked 64 shipments from North Korea to Russia from September 2023 to March 2025 that involved 16,000 containers carrying millions of North Korean artillery rounds and recorded a shipment from North Korea as recently as March 17, 2025. Reuters and the OSC reported that four Russian-flagged ships — the Angara, Maria, Maia-1, and Lady R cargo ships — transported the ammunition from North Korea's port of Rajin to the Russian ports of Vostochny and Dunai. Reuters reviewed Russian military documents of everyday Russian artillery usage that showed that some Russian units depended on North Korean artillery shells for half or more of their shells used in daily fire missions. Reuters reported that an unspecified Russian unit fighting in Zaporizhia Oblast reported that nearly 50 percent of its 152mm D-20 howitzer rounds and 100 percent of its 122mm rockets fired came from North Korea. Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) told Reuters that North Korea has provided Russia with three million artillery rounds and an unspecified number of mortar rounds since mid-2023 and that half of all of Russia's artillery rounds come from North Korea. The GUR also stated that North Korea supplied Russia with 148 KN-23 and KN-24 ballistic missiles as of January 2025.
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