Ukrainian and North Korean troops clash for the first time as the North sends military personnel to support Russia's long ongoing war with its neighbor.
Ukraine has engaged militarily for the first time with North Korean troops deployed to support Russia in its ongoing war with its neighbor, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday in a nightly address. Zelenskyy did not go into detail about the engagement but warned of what he says is Russia’s intention to escalate the war that has raged for nearly 1,000 days. A Kyiv official said Ukraine’s army fired artillery at North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk border region.
Terror, unfortunately, can spread like a virus when it does not meet sufficient counteraction. Now our counteraction must be sufficient, strong enough. The first battles with North Korean soldiers have opened a new chapter of instability in the world,' Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address as he thanked Ukraine’s allies around the world. 'Together with the world, we must do everything so that this Russian step to expand the war with real escalation fails.
Russia is reported to have 1.3 million active-duty soldiers with another 2 million in reserve. Russia is now seeing its highest number of casualties than at any other time since the war began, with some 1,200 casualties reported a day, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week. Despite the high number of casualties, there does not appear to be any end in sight to the war, validating early concerns that this would be a war of attrition.
Zelenskyy also called into question China’s 'silence' with regard to the North’s recent involvement in the war. Meanwhile, North Korea was reported to have fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Tuesday. The launch came days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a flight test of the country's newest intercontinental ballistic missile designed to reach the U.S. mainland.
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