Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday appeared to confirm that North Korean soldiers had been sent to fight in Russia, as Ukrainian intelligence officials said the troops had arrived in the Kursk region.
Their presence has been an open secret since South Korea’s intelligence service released video footage of North Korean troops training in Russia’s far east.
The soldiers are expected to fight Ukrainian forces who successfully launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August, in an attempt to blunt the Russian military’s efforts to seize more territory in eastern Ukraine.
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