There have been 'small-scale clashes' between Ukrainian and North Korean troops, said Kyiv's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
North Korean soldiers 'disguised' as Russian fighters from Siberia have clashed with Ukrainian troops, Kyiv's Defense Minister has said, although casualty counts among Pyongyang's forces are still unclear.North Korean troops deployed alongside Moscow's own forces were dressed to look like Russian recruits from the eastern Siberian region of Buryatia, Rustem Umerov told South Korean broadcaster KBS.
The Pentagon said on Monday that 10,000 North Korean troops were in Kursk. In late October, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. had not yet detected North Korean troops embroiled in combat, but that they would 'join the fight against Ukraine in the coming days.'Many Western countries have denounced the arrival of North Korean troops for combat in Europe's largest land war since World War II as a dangerous escalation to the grinding and bloody conflict.
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