Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on Monday that North Korea could send more troops and military equipment to Russia, citing intelligence reports of significant losses suffered by North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region.
Kiev continues to press allies for a tougher response as it says Moscow's and Pyongyang's transfer of warfare experience and military technologies constitute a global threat . Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that more than 3,000 North Korea n soldiers have been killed and wounded in Russia's Kursk region and warned that Pyongyang could send more personnel and equipment for Moscow's army.
'There are risks of North Korea sending additional troops and military equipment to the Russian army,' Zelenskyy said on X on Monday after receiving a report from his top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi.We thoroughly analyzed our work with Syria after the fall of Assad and his escape. Today, the intelligence services presented their reports—the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine—as well as the Ministers of…The estimate of North Korean losses is higher than that provided by Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), which said on Monday at least 1,100 North Korean troops had been killed or wounded. The assessment was in line with a briefing last week by South Korea's intelligence agency, which reported some 100 deaths with another 1,000 wounded in the region.Russia has neither confirmed nor denied the presence of North Koreans on its side. Pyongyang initially dismissed reports about the troop deployment as'fake news', but a North Korean official has said any such deployment would be lawful.Some of them have been deployed for combat in Russia's Kursk region, where Ukraine still holds a chunk of land after a major cross-border incursion in August. JCS added that it has detected signs of Pyongyang planning to produce suicide drones to be shipped to Russia, in addition to the already supplied 240mm multiple rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled howitzer
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