The first footage of Russian forces using a powerful North Korean 240mm rocket system against Ukraine emerged on Wednesday, just before Kyiv released a video showing the first confirmed destruction of the DPRK system in the war.

“6:03, good morning. We’re from Russia,” a soldier says in the video, moments before an apparent 240mm M1991 multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) with an anti-drone cope cage fires several rocket rounds from a road.

The system’s exact location is unclear, but a double triangle marking on the truck’s cabin, reportedlyused by Russian forces near Mariupol, hints at its whereabouts, although areas