Russia confirms North Korean troops are in Ukraine and claims Kursk region is retaken

Russia acknowledged for the first time that North Korean troops were on the front lines of its war with Ukraine, with a senior military official crediting their role in helping Russian forces reclaim control of the Kursk region.

Russia acknowledged for the first time that North Korean troops were on the front lines of its war with Ukraine, with a senior military official crediting their role in helping Russian forces reclaim control of the Kursk region.

“I would like to separately note the participation ... of military personnel of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Valery Gerasimov, the Russian chief of general staff, told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a report Saturday.

Gerasimov added that under a “comprehensive, strategic partnership” between the two countries, North Korean soldiers had provided “significant assistance” to Russia’s army in defeating Ukrainian forces.

Putin congratulated his military in a statement from the Kremlin on Saturday, adding that “the full defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border region creates conditions for further successful actions by our forces on other important parts of the front.”

South Korean media reported earlier this year that more than 11,000 North Korean troops were fighting in the western Russian region of Kursk, reports that neither Moscow nor Pyongyang had confirmed until now.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/russia-confirms-north-korean-troops-kursk-rcna203137

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