June 13, 2025
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Budanov: Russia will help North Korea to establish the production of “Shahmed”

Eugene Gubin Defense News Editor. General experience in journalism is over 18 years. I admire technologies, space and adore dogs.

Russia will help North Korea to establish the production of Shahaneda in the DPRK. The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov in an interview with The War Zone told about it.

”[Існують] arrangements to start creating capacities for UAV production of “Harpia” and “Geranium” [російська версія іранських дронів Shahed-136] On the territory of North Korea, “he said.

The head of GUR is convinced that this “will lead to changes in the military balance in the region between North Korea and South Korea.” At the same time, Kirill Budanov added that while Russia and North Korea only agreed on the organization of this production.

We will remind that Russia received the first hundred of “shahas” from Iran in 2022. In the summer of 2023, the aggressor began to produce these drones on its own. The company was equipped at a distance of 1200 km from the front line – in the special economic zone “Alabuga”, in the city of Elabuga.

According to GUR, as of May 2025, the production of Shahaneda and the imitators of this drone in Russia reached about 170 units a day. By the end of the year, the figure intends to increase to 190 drones a day.

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Eugene Gubin Defense News Editor. General experience in journalism is over 18 years. I admire technologies, space and adore dogs.

Russia will help North Korea to establish the production of Shahaneda in the DPRK. The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov in an interview with The War Zone told about it.

”[Існують] arrangements to start creating capacities for UAV production of “Harpia” and “Geranium” [російська версія іранських дронів Shahed-136] On the territory of North Korea, “he said.

The head of GUR is convinced that this “will lead to changes in the military balance in the region between North Korea and South Korea.” At the same time, Kirill Budanov added that while Russia and North Korea only agreed on the organization of this production.

We will remind that Russia received the first hundred of “shahas” from Iran in 2022. In the summer of 2023, the aggressor began to produce these drones on its own. The company was equipped at a distance of 1200 km from the front line – in the special economic zone “Alabuga”, in the city of Elabuga.

According to GUR, as of May 2025, the production of Shahaneda and the imitators of this drone in Russia reached about 170 units a day. By the end of the year, the figure intends to increase to 190 drones a day.

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