Towards a larger conflict? The United States expects thousands of North Korean soldiers stationed in Russia to fight Ukrainian forces “soon,” Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Saturday (Nov. 23).
The US Secretary of Defense estimates that some 10,000 members of the North Korean army are in the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine and partially occupied by kyiv forces, and are “integrated into Russian formations.”
“Based on what (North Korean soldiers) have been trained, the way they have been integrated into Russian formations, I hope to see them in combat soon,” he told reporters in Fiji. where you are visiting.
50,000 new soldiers?
Lloyd Austin said he had “not seen any significant reports” of North Korean soldiers “actively participating in combat” to date.
South Korean government officials and a research organization said this week that Moscow was providing fuel, anti-aircraft missiles and economic aid to Pyongyang in exchange for troops, which Seoul and Washington accuse of sending.
kyiv warned that Russia had raised some 50,000 troops, including several thousand North Korean soldiers, to regain control of areas of the Kursk region occupied by the Ukrainian army that launched an offensive there in early August.
Source: BFM TV
