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Ukrainian soldiers have clashed with North Korean units that were recently deployed to Russia for the first time, Ukraine's defence ministry confirmed Tuesday. The fighting took place in Russia's Kursk border region.

Another Kyiv official said Ukraine's army fired artillery at North Korean soldiers in[b] Russia's Kursk border region.[/b]

The comments were the first official reports that Ukrainian and North Korean forces have engaged in combat, following a deployment that has given the war a new complexion as it approaches its 1,000-day milestone.

Neither claim could be independently confirmed.

The Ukrainian and North Korean troops engaged in “small-scale” fighting that amounted to the start of Pyongyang’s direct involvement in Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov told South Korea’s public broadcaster KBS in an interview.

North Korean soldiers are mixed with Russian troops and are misidentified on their uniforms, Umerov was quoted as saying by KBS. That makes it hard to say whether there were any North Korean casualties, he said.

Umerov reportedly said he expects that five North Korean units, each consisting of about 3,000 soldiers, will be deployed to the Kursk area.

Meanwhile, Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation branch of Ukraine’s Security Council, said “the first North Korean troops have already been shelled, in the Kursk region.”

He provided no further details.

Western governments had expected that the North Korean soldiers would be sent to Russia’s Kursk border region, where a 3-month-old incursion by the Ukrainian army is the first occupation of Russian territory since World War II and has embarrassed the Kremlin.

U.S., South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence assessments say up to 12,000 North Korean combat troops are being sent by Pyongyang to the war under a pact with Moscow.

The Pentagon said Monday that at least 10,000 North Korean soldiers were in Russia near Ukraine’s border.

More troops from North Korea’s 1.3-million-strong army may be slated for deployment in Russia, according to an analysis published Tuesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations, an international think tank.

The ramifications extend far beyond Europe, it said.

“Despite integration challenges — including communication barriers and differing military doctrines — the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia represents a significant shift in European and Asian security relations,” the analysis said. “For the first time in generations, troops from East Asia are actively engaging in a European conflict.”

The North Korean troops, whose fighting quality and battle experience is unknown, are adding to Ukraine’s worsening situation on the battlefield.

Ukrainian defenses, especially in the eastern Donetsk region, are buckling under the strain of Russia’s costly but relentless monthslong onslaught.

Russian advances have recently accelerated, with battlefield gains of up to 9 kilometers (more than 5 miles) in some parts of Donetsk, the U.K. Defense Ministry said Tuesday on the social platform X.

It said Russia has superior troop numbers, and despite heavy casualties the Kremlin’s recruitment drive is providing enough new troops to keep up the pressure.

Russia has held the battlefield initiative in Ukraine for the past year. Ukrainian officials have long complained that Western military takes too long to arrive in the country.

In early October, Russian forces drove Ukrainian troops out of Vuhledar, a town perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine.

It was part of a key belt of Ukrainian defenses in the east. Russia’s next targets likely are the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk and the strategically important city of Chasiv Yar.

In the meantime, Russia has kept up its long-range aerial attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine, authorities say.

A Tuesday morning attack on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia killed six people and injured 23 others, regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.

The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andrii Yermak, said the Russian attacks “must be stopped with strong action.”

“A stronger position by (Ukraine’s Western) allies is needed,” he wrote on Telegram.

Source;
https://www.24.com/en/europe/20241105-ukrainian-troops-clash-with-n-korean-units-for-the-first-time-in-russia-official-says

E DON RED

I'm happy, NATO and America now have people that can challenge them.
Back then NATO and America were busy invading and destroying several countries at will ( irag, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen etc) with little or no resistance for no reasonable reason.
God bless Kim jong UN and Putin for fighting against injustice and oppression in the world.

Ghm

Botragelad:


Source;
https://www.24.com/en/europe/20241105-ukrainian-troops-clash-with-n-korean-units-for-the-first-time-in-russia-official-says

small clash big casualties.

A warning. Things to come, Revelation 13:1 comes to mind America 🇺🇸 needs to thread lightly. No champion forever. That small boy you look down on will comot your teeth 😁

So Russia needs help to actually beat Ukraine? After they go dey claim nonsense

Trump presidency will change the narrative

Are Russians playing mind games or they are actually Short of fighters that they have to import soldiers from North Korea

Make Trump come end this madness before one leader starts itching badly to drop a nuke and send us to ww3.

Meanwhile, those of you praying for Nigeria to get better, aguu ga-egbukwa unu.
You can't miss Ordinary Differential Equations classes all semester and pray to get an A. You be Dumbledore?

Thisis2raw:
So Russia needs help to actually beat Ukraine? After they go dey claim nonsense

Like the US Navy Seals Special Forces killed by Russia last week in Ukraine. Right?


Or the British, French and NATO forces secretly fighting for Ukraine? More than 100,000 of them.

Hi

issok

Thisis2raw:
So Russia needs help to actually beat Ukraine? After they go dey claim nonsense

While Russia is a big for nothing disgrace, Ukrainians are also getting help from NATO in of weapons and funding.

Lol canon fodder they will be killed in multiple numbers using outdated ww2 weapons against advanced Western military hardware,make dem ask the Russians the hell dem dey see for ukraine

Confidence don come 👌😂.. Trump don win..💯

Botragelad:


Source;
https://www.24.com/en/europe/20241105-ukrainian-troops-clash-with-n-korean-units-for-the-first-time-in-russia-official-says

Wat a shame. Putin desperately looking for fighters. 80% of prisoners in Russia have been drafted into the war. A war they claim will take 2days don hook them for throat.

Mind u, alot of our African brothers have been lured and drafted into the war by Russia. Most of them dead.🔪

I dont want peace

Emmy000seun:
Confidence don come 👌😂.. Trump don win..💯

Yes nah, because they know he’s their agent.

Wetin putin eye dey look for
e go see am
one day na one day,
monkey go go-market

Ironfaceman:
A warning. Things to come, Revelation 13:1 comes to mind America 🇺🇸 needs to thread lightly. No champion forever. That small boy you look down on will comot your teeth 😁

My friend go and sit down jor

Do you know how many babaric and disgusting wars have been fought before this

WrriterNg:



Like the US Navy Seals Special Forces killed by Russia last week in Ukraine. Right?


Or the British, French and NATO forces secretly fighting for Ukraine? More than 100,000 of them.

Your "mother Russia" now needs a babysitter.

EdiskyHarry:
I'm happy, NATO and America now have people that can challenge them.
Back then NATO and America were busy invading and destroying several countries at will ( irag, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen etc) with little or no resistance for no reasonable reason.
God bless Kim jong UN and Putin for fighting against injustice and oppression in the world.

Were they not existing before ? Or they just fell from the sky this morning ?


It is spelt "Iraq" not "Irag"

WrriterNg:



Like the US Navy Seals Special Forces killed by Russia last week in Ukraine. Right?


Or the British, French and NATO forces secretly fighting for Ukraine? More than 100,000 of them.

Nigga u lie 2much. Damn.
The guy killed was member of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group.A group made up of mercenaries. The fallen soldier is a former US Army.

Alot of mercenaries are fighting in the war from both ends.

Hmmmmm2024:


Were they not existing before ? Or they just fell from the sky this morning ?


It is spelt "Iraq" not "Irag"

Whatever

Well, we can expect Trump to force concessions on Ukraine to give up Russian occupied territory, and have cease fire with Russia.
Meaning Putin wins and saves face.

Ironfaceman:
A warning. Things to come, Revelation 13:1 comes to mind America 🇺🇸 needs to thread lightly. No champion forever. That small boy you look down on will comot your teeth 😁

You people's analysis is like those of the polling Nostradamus.

If Russia is this powerful would they need men from Korea? Would they need arms from Iran, Korea and China?

Have you ever heard where America requested arms from a third party?

Ironfaceman:
A warning. Things to come, Revelation 13:1 comes to mind America 🇺🇸 needs to thread lightly. No champion forever. That small boy you look down on will comot your teeth 😁

You people's analysis is like those of the polling Nostradamus.

If Russia is this powerful would they need men from Korea? Would they need arms from Iran, Korea and China?

Have you ever heard where America requested arms from a third party?

When the like of western Europe and america allied forces can not resolve and avoid the war , anyone can Russian for war fight against Ukraine, and the war continue to rest more , nobody should complain about that.

emmyN:


Your "mother Russia" now needs a babysitter.

The same way your so called mighty US needed help (Troops, weapons and money) from the entire NATO before they could invade Afghanistan.

Russia even allowed the US troops to through its territory to enter Afghanistan.

Pakistan, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman all helped house, feed and provided for US troops that invaded Afghanistan.