Putin had to go 'cap in hand' to beg North Korea for weapons, says the UK's defense secretary

• North Korea might be supplying Russia with ballistic missiles.
• But those weapon shipments didn't come easy, says UK defense secretary Grant Shapps. 
• Shapps said Putin had to go "cap in hand" to ask North Korea for weapons. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin had to beg North Korea to supply them with weapons for the Ukraine war, the UK defense secretary said on Friday.

"The world has turned its back on Russia, forcing Putin into the humiliation of going cap in hand to North Korea to keep his illegal invasion going," Grant Shapps wrote on X.