Ukraine has said that Pyongyang had sent troops to fight for Russian President Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine.
North Korean soldiers who had been enlisted to fight for Vladimir Putin but deserted when they were on the front line may be deployed in assault operations against Ukrainian troops.Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate has said that Russia is training more than 11,000 troops from North Korea for the war in Ukraine to be ready for combat operations starting next month in claims backed by South Korean intelligence.
'Meat assault' refers to what Ukraine dubs Russian operations in which undertrained personnel are sent in to storm the combat zone, resulting in very high casualty numbers.Newsweek reached out to the Ukrainian and Russian defense ministries for comment.British defense officials said that Russian forces had suffered a massive spike in casualties in September, which delivered the highest monthly average of dead and wounded soldiers since the start of the war.
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