Russia dismissed claims that it is using North Korean ballistic missiles against Ukraine as U.S. disinformation on Wednesday, as Washington, Kyiv and others accused Moscow of violating sanctions at a U.N. Security Council meeting.

The meeting followed White House allegations over the past week that Russian forces used North Korean short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) to target several Ukrainian cities between Dec. 30 and Jan. 6.

Open-source analysts separately identified missile debris in the city of Kharkiv as the DPRK’s Hwasong-11A (KN-23) missile, which bears similarities to Russia’s Iskander missile.

U.S. envoy Robert Wood reiterated these allegationsin the Security