 Weapons sent from North Korea to Russia were brought to the border with Ukraine. A new report identifies the transfer of ammunition from Pyongyang through Russia to a newly constructed ammunition depot in Krasnodar close to Ukraine. On Monday, the UK think tank, the Royal United Services Institute, RUSI, produced the report entitled the Orient Express North Korea's clandestine supply route to Russia. The RUSI report used dozens of high-resolution, open-source satellite images to show the passage of two Russian ships, Angara and Maria, making at least four trips to move the containers between the North Korean port of Rajin to the Russian port of Dunae between the middle of August and the start of October. The RUSI report follows a report last week when the New York Times and other media reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had identified a shipment of 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions from North Korea to Russia. According to the RUSI report, the Russian owners of the Angara and Maria, M. Leasing and Marine Trans Shipping, which have commercial and political links with the Kremlin, were sanctioned by the U.S. soon after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The RUSI wrote that the munitions containers were moved, probably by rail, to a munitions storage facility in the small town of Tikhoretsk, in southern Russia's Krasnodar region. This is close to occupied Crimea and only 200 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. Satellite imagery in the RUSI report showed how the existing ammunition depot had been expanded and extended between July and the end of September. This included the construction of more than 100 munitions storage pits protected by earth berms, which are designed to prevent propagation between ammunition stacks in case of an explosion.