The day before, on October 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the Russian Federation is preparing about 10,000 North Korean troops to be sent to the war in Ukraine, in particular, infantry units.
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As reported by NBN with reference to The War Zone, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov supplemented the above information – at least 11,000 soldiers from North Korea are currently undergoing combat training in the eastern part of the aggressor country.
According to Budanov, North Korean units of the “second army of the world” will be ready to fight against Ukraine in the near future – from November 1. The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense added that during the period of hostilities, DPRK soldiers will use not their own, but Russian armored vehicles and ammunition. In addition, the first batch of 2,600 North Korean troops will be redeployed to the Kursk region to strengthen the counteroffensive of Putin's troops.
However, it is still unknown to which section of the front the Russian generals have planned to send the remaining 11,000 “Kim Jong-un fighters”:
We don't have the full picture right now.
Earlier, our information portal wrote about how Zaluzhny spoke about the operation of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region.