On the night of August 11, the Russians fired a North Korean-made ballistic missile at Kyiv region.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported on this.

The strike killed a father and his four-year-old son, and injured three other people, including a twelve-year-old boy.

Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, detailed that the Russians used four KN-23 missiles, launched from the Voronezh region.

On August 6, Militarnyi reported that Russia attacked Kyiv region with ballistic missiles from the DPRK.

The Colonel GSh Telegram channel published a photo of a fragment of an allegedly DPRK-made Hwasong-11 (KN-23) ballistic missile, discovered at the site of the enemy missile crash. It is noted that these missiles are made of low-quality components.

KN-23

The North Korean Hwasong-11 (KN-23) is actually a copy of the Russian 9M723 ballistic missile of the Iskander system, but it has a number of technical and visual differences. The obvious ones include the structural differences in the tail part.

The first test launch of the Hwasong-11Ga missile, according to intelligence agencies, took place on May 4, 2019. The missile flew about 240 kilometers, and about 690 kilometers on the next tests.

There is a theory that these are two different versions of one missile, and the mass of the warhead is 500 kilograms in both versions, but this assumption is not confirmed.

Using a satellite navigation system, the circular error probability of the rocket can be around 100 meters, whereas with only an inertial system, it cannot exceed 200 meters.

The Hwasong-11Ga missile, which is 8.7 meters long, is longer than the 9М723, which is 7.8 meters long and has a larger diameter, but the North Korean ‘clone’ has 400 kilograms less weight.

The missile can be placed on a wheeled landing gear, visually resembling a Russian 9P78-1 launcher from the Iskander system. In both versions, the launcher can carry two missiles.