#artillery shells

Much to Petey's dismay, my neighbors put on quite a show tonight. I got there after they had been blowing things up for over a minute, and it still lasted for a long time. I'm hoping that they're done because they put on another show, after this one. Now, it's after midnight so they should stop, but those are, definitely, not the legal fireworks that are allowed in the city limits so I don't know if they're going to follow the law, at all. I sure hope that they stop because Petey hasn't been outside for over 15 hours, and I'm sure she'd like to go to the bathroom, by now. I used to love to set off fireworks, but I did it in the proper setting and not by other people's homes, like these people are doing. I gotta admit, it was a great show, but it upset Petey, and I don't like that. If they don't stop, I'll have to go explain that they need to stop, in no uncertain terms... I'm very persuasive, especially, when someone I love is being bothered by other's actions... I don't have any problem protecting my dog or anyone, for that matter, at all... sometimes, you just gotta do what you gotta do... ❤️🐕❤️🎆🎇🥳🎉🎊✨️🥊🙏🏼 They just set off 5 huge explosions so I guess I'm going to meet my neighbors... wish them luck!!🤣🤣🤣

Russia is running low on ammo. And part of the reason for that is that North Korea has apparently cut its shipment of shells to Russia in half.

North Korea is effectively a slave state with rampant poverty and malnutrition. Its pre-schoolers are notably shorter and more bony than similar kids in South Korea. It is effectively a communist monarchy where the ruling family lives lavishly and spends the country's wealth on costly prestige projects like nuclear weapons.

North Korea's main exports to Russia are state mercenaries and artillery shells – and it is falling short on the latter.

Pyongyang has cut its artillery shell shipments to Russia by more than half in 2025 due to dwindling stockpiles, Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR), told Reuters on Nov. 14. North Korean artillery ammunition enabled Russia to maintain its firing rate in 2024, but this year, that support has declined markedly, with both the quantity and quality of munitions delivered to the Kremlin significantly reduced. In 2023, North Korea supplied Russia with about 6.5 million artillery shells from its stockpiles, taking the opportunity to strengthen ties with Moscow following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Skibitskyi told Reuters. Yet no shipments were recorded in September, though some were tracked in October, according to Ukraine's military intelligence. Skibitskyi added that roughly half of the shells arriving from Pyongyang were so poorly maintained that they had to be sent to Russian factories for refurbishing.

Yep, those shells from North Korea were so substandard that they weren't even good enough for Russia without first being mended.

And even when those shitty North Korean shells get to Russia, Putin is having a more difficult time getting them to the front. Ukraine, probably with help from anti-Putin partisans, is conducting operations to sabotage the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Russian Far East.

This video in Ukrainian from HUR (Ukrainian military intelligence) marks a sabotage operation near Khabarovsk (Хабаровск) which is at a junction where the railway splits off into two different branches.

Ukraine is able to conduct operations thousands of kilometers from its borders.

HOW TO FORGE SHELLS FOR UKRAINE’S ARTILLERY

Every day for months, Ukrainian soldiers have fired thousands of American-made artillery shells at Russian troops, and all of that ammunition begins its journey to the battlefield at factories in northeastern Pennsylvania. The oldest of those plants, in Scranton, first began making steel shells in the early 1950s for the Korean War.

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