This handout {photograph} exhibits engineers of the twenty fourth mechanized brigade named after King Danylo putting in razor wire alongside the frontline within the Donetsk area, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Press service of the twenty fourth mechanized brigade named after King Danylo/AFP/Yonhap)
Kyiv’s protection intelligence company has stated Russia seems to have deployed greater than 7,000 North Korean troopers, armed with AK-12 rifles, mortar rounds and different assault weapons, to areas close to the border with Ukraine.
South Korea and the West have warned that North Korean troops in Russia might quickly enter into fight towards Ukraine that may pose a serious safety menace to each Europe and the Indo-Pacific area.
The Protection Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) stated on Saturday (native time) that Russia moved greater than 7,000 North Korean troopers from Russia’s coastal area to areas close to Ukraine final week.
“The North Korean troops had been moved to the frontline with the assistance of not less than 28 army transport plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces,” the DIU stated on its web site.
Moscow armed the North Korean troopers with Russian firearms, together with 60-millimeter mortars, AK-12 rifles, machine weapons, sniper rifles, anti-tank guided missiles and anti-tank grenade launchers, and night time imaginative and prescient tools, the DIU stated.
North Korean troopers are actually present process coaching at 5 totally different websites in Russia’s Far East for potential assist of Russia’s warfare in Ukraine, it famous. (Yonhap)