KYIV, March 29 – Russia resorted to manipulation by spreading allegations that Ukrainian rocket engines may have been supplied to North Korea, Pivdenmash, the country’s rocket producer, said.

"The UN report on sanctions against North Korea, mentioned by Russian officials, does not contain evidence of the presence of elements of Ukrainian production in the rocket engines of North Korean ICBMs: the report says that there could have been some elements of the Soviet RD-250 rocket engine in North Korean missiles. Such statements are another information manipulation, which aims at linking Ukraine to the North Korean missile program," a representative of Pivdenmash's managers told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.