Kyiv: Involvement of North Korean soldiers in the fighting did not “bring results”

The engagement of North Korean soldiers alongside the Russian army against Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk region “did not have a significant impact” on the course of the fighting, a Ukrainian military intelligence official told AFP today. According to Kiev, 12,000 North Korean soldiers, including “about 500 officers and three generals”, are in the region that borders Ukraine and where Ukrainian forces have controlled territory since August. Neither Russia nor North Korea have ever confirmed the presence of these forces alongside the Russian military. “The participation of the North Koreans in the fighting did not have a significant effect on the situation. It’s not a large number of men,” Yevhen Ierin, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service (GUR), told AFP. They learn by fighting As he pointed out, North Korean troops have no experience in the modern needs of warfare, especially against drones that are everywhere on the battlefield, and (those troops) use “more primitive tactics, […]
Source: News Beast

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