Russia wants to train 10,000 soldiers from the DPRK.
DPRK leader Kim Jong-un at a ceremony to deploy 250 launchers of a new type of tactical ballistic missile
North Korean officers are already in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a briefing in Brussels
These officers are training Russian soldiers. According to him, intelligence has the relevant information.
“I don't know how many officers, but there is intelligence data that Russia is counting on such reinforcements,” the president added.
The need for foreign soldiers arose due to the failure of the Russian mobilization.
According to the Ukrainian president, Russia is going to train 10,000 Korean soldiers from various branches of the armed forces. Not just infantry.
“Now North Korea is preparing a contingent to fight against Ukraine,” the president said.
He stressed that this is an officially confirmed fact of entering the war against Ukraine. This is the only contingent, besides the Russian one, participating in the war. Iran provided Russia with weapons, but not troops.
- According to LB.ua, as of September, about 10,000 soldiers from the DPRK were at four Russian training grounds. There was no confirmed information that they had already been transferred to fight.
- Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that Russia had received from the DPRK not only weapons, but also people for the army and work in its factories. In addition, on October 14, he reported that North Korea had actually joined the war against Ukraine. The next day, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation Andrei Kovalenko denied the information that Pyongyang would send 100,000 people to the Russian army. According to him, only less than one percent of North Korean officers speak Russian.
- According to the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, among Moscow's allies, Pyongyang is creating more problems for Ukraine. North Korea provides the Russians with aid that is incomparable with others, he said back in September.