RUSSIA is blasting Ukraine with missiles made just a few months ago as pre-war stockpiles are spent, weapons detectives in Kyiv say.

The freshly baked bombs include its devastating new Kh-69 stealth cruise missile.

The high-tech weapons bear serial numbers which show they were made as late as the final three months of last year, according to bomb blast researchers.

Former colonel Andrii Kulchytskyi, a boss at the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, said: “We know that they have run down stockpiles and are using weapons produced while they are fighting. In the two biggest air attacks this year, on January 2 and January 9, they used their newest rockets made at the end of 2023.

“These are like freshly baked rockets going straight from the factory to the front line.”

Andrii’s lab is stacked high with wrecked Russian rockets, missiles and drones.

They include the remnants of a Kh-32 missile which hit the north-eastern Sumy region in January.

It is thought to be the newest missile in Russia’s arsenal.

It had a “33” on its side, indicating it was made in the third quarter of 2023.

The air to ground cruise missile – similar to the British Storm Shadow – was only unveiled outside Russia for the first time in November, at the Dubai Air Show.

Experts fear Vladimir Putin is getting North Korea to fill shortages.

At least 20 North Korean missiles have been fired at Ukraine since December in a sign of Pyongyang’s willingness to replenish Moscow’s shortages.

Experts warned it is a different story with dumb munitions like heavy artillery shells, which Moscow has in abundance while Ukraine is running low.

Michael Clarke, of think tank Rusi, said: “Russia thinks it will need four million artillery shells this year and is expected to get two million of them from North Korea.”

Yesterday, S-300 Russian missiles blasted a railway station in the eastern town of Kostiantynivka.

One woman was injured.