As the Russia-Ukraine war continues to escalate, North Korea has confirmed for the first time that it has sent troops to fight in the conflict under the orders of the country’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. On Monday, North Korea’s ruling party was reported to be boasting about the “end of the battle in Russia’s Kursk region.”
“The end of the battle in Russia’s Kursk region showed the “highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship between North Korea and Russia,” the KCNA state news agency cited the ruling party as saying. The remarks from Pyongyang came a week after Russia claimed that Ukrainian forces had been expelled from the Russian village which was infiltrated last year.
However, Kyiv denied the claim and said that the troops are still operating in Belgorod and other Russian territories bordering Ukraine. On Sunday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow is falsely claiming that Kursk has been “liberated”. “Our military continues to perform tasks in the Kursk and Belgorod regions – we are maintaining our presence on Russian territory,” he said in his evening address. In a previous statement, he did mention that the situation remains difficult for the Ukrainian troops.
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