Zelenskyy says Ukraine will be forced to fight against North Korea as he calls on allies to increase pressure on Russia

Published October 28, 2024
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine will be forced to fight against North Korean troops.
  • Zelenskyy made the comments during an evening address posted to Telegram.
  • Ukraine previously warned that North Korean troops could be on the battlefield from Sunday.

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine will be forced to fight against North Korean troops should they enter the conflict.

In an evening address posted on Telegram, Zelenskyy said North Korean forces could appear on the battlefield “any day now.”

“Ukraine will be forced to actually fight against North Korea in Europe,” he said, adding: “These are the conditions when the lack of partners’ stronger decisions in support of Ukraine only encourages Putin to invest further in terror.”

Zelenskyy also called on Western allies to ramp up pressure on Russia, saying he expected more support.

 

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SOURCE: www.businessinsider.com

RELATED: The First Truckloads Of North Korean Troops May Have Reached The Front Line In Kursk

North Korea has sent thousands of soldiers to join Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.

Published October 28, 2024

The Kremlin has been secretly transporting North Korean troops toward the Ukrainian-held salient in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, if intercepted Russian radio communications are any indication.

The intercepted chatter, released by the Ukrainian intelligence directorate on Sunday and translated by Estonian analyst WarTranslated, seems to confirm what Ukrainian sources have been saying for days now—that thousands of North Korean soldiers have begun arriving along the front line in western Russia.

The intercepted conversation between two Russian military officials concerned the driver of a KAMAZ truck named Andrey Sveridenko, who got stopped while driving into Kursk. On Aug. 6, a strong Ukrainian force invaded Kursk, quickly occupying hundreds of square miles.

Russian military police “detained some KAMAZ on a highway” in Kursk Oblast, one of the officials on the radio exchange explained to his counterpart.

The truck’s plate number, 497, “is a civilian number,” the first official said. The vehicle had “no combat assignment,” so the military police “got concerned.”

“I’ll sort it out,” the other official replied. He reported back that Sveridenko was “helping to transfer North Koreans.”

“Ah, so that’s why [he’s] without [a] combat assignment,” the first official said. In other words, the deployment of Pyongyang’s forces to Kursk is off the books—unsurprisingly, considering the Kremlin has described reports of North Korean troops in Russia as “fake news.”

According to WarTranslated, Sveridenko’s consignment of North Korean soldiers was destined for the Russian navy’s 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, which has been trying to roll back Ukrainian advances on the eastern edge of the Kursk salient around the village of Russkaya Konopelka. Ukrainian drones and artillery have held off the Russians, so far.

 

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SOURCE: www.forbes.com

 

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