council, says the u.s. now believes that north korea may be preparing to send some artillery shells to russia for use in ukraine. what is important here are two things. number one, they have no evidence that any of these artillery shells have made their way to russia or to ukraine. also, they believe that north korea is intentionally running these shells, this artillery through other countries, as a way to obscure its transfer from north korea directly into russia. so what we're going to continue asking here at the pentagon and across washington, is there evidence they're making their way into the hands of the crushens to be used in ukraine on the battlefield, artillery has been a critical weapon, a critical use inside ukraine and will only continue to be used in the coming months ahead as the conflict continues, but john kirby did make a point of saying that even with this, even if it ends up being hundreds or thousands of artillery shells