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It was allegedly a North Korean M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzer seen on the front line of Russia, according to reports on Tuesday after news of the delivery of the two large guns first emerged in November.
The artillery weapon reportedly has a range of up to 37 miles when using rocket-propelled grenades and is capable of firing one to two rounds every five minutes.
News of the weapon, along with a video that appears to show one of the howitzers in action, was first reported by East 2 West News, and images of the howitzer have surfaced on social media, though Fox News Digital was unable to independently verify the weapon’s location.
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A North Korean M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzer was spotted on the Russian front line on January 7, 2025. after in November 2024 it was first noticed during transportation by railway. (Image courtesy of East 2 West)
According to to open source intelligence published on X in November, the howitzers were geolocated and found to have been transiting through Siberia by rail, less than a month after the US confirmed that North Korea had sent up to 12,000 troops to Russia, and about five months after Pyongyang and Moscow signed defense treaty on military obligations to support each other.
It remains unclear whether the video from The big North Korean gun was delivered from the Kursk region of Russia, where Pyongyang’s soldiers were sent to counter the invasion of Ukraine, which first began in August.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (center) oversees an artillery drill in North Korea on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, file)
Both Ukraine and Russia reported heavy casualties in the region, with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky saying in an interview on Sunday that about 3,800 North Korean troops had been killed or wounded.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military said that about 15,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and 23,000 wounded in Kursk over the past five months.
A view of a trench built to create a defensive line around Sumy, in Sumy, Ukraine, on November 6, 2024. (Photo by Oksana Parafeniuk for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Moscow, according to A BBC report on Tuesdayclaimed that at least 49,000 Ukrainian soldiers were lost, although he does not distinguish between the number of wounded and killed Ukrainians.
Fox News Digital was unable to independently verify reports of casualties in either country.
Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessed on Monday that the Ukrainian troops made a “tactical advance under the conditions of prolonged intensified offensive actions” on Kursk.
“Ukrainian forces may continue to conduct long-range strikes against Russian rear lines in the Kursk region as part of efforts to use complex strike capabilities to support ground operations,” the think tank added.
Russian troops continued limited ground operations towards the northern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Sunday and Monday, but reported little progress – an operation that Ukraine has largely resisted since May.
The head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubav, said on Monday that Ukraine’s latest offensive operations in Kursk were able to reduce the number of Russian ground attacks in the north of the Kharkiv region, ISW reports.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (center) meets with soldiers who took part in exercises in North Korea on March 13, 2024. (Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
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On Monday, it was reported that Russian troops had advanced into Donetsk and captured Kurakhov, a frontline town in the Donbass. The capture of the city could mean Russian forces are closing in on Ukrainian forces, who have been under fire for months trying to stop Russian forces encircled Mr. Pokrovskand which could give the Russian forces a strategic victory and access to the supply routes connecting the area with Zaporozhye.
Ukraine has not officially confirmed whether Kurakhava has fallen.
It is believed that Russian troops did not advance for strategic purposes along other front-line areas at this time.
