Ukraine Says It Has Fired on North Korean Troops in Kursk

Published on November 5, 2024

Ukrainian forces fired at North Korean soldiers in combat for the first time since their deployment to the western Kursk region of Russia, Ukrainian officials claimed on Tuesday. The exchange would mark the first direct intervention by a foreign army since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor got underway in 2022. “The first military units of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] have already come under fire in Kursk,” Andriy Kovalenko, Ukraine’s top counter-disinformation official, said on Telegram. The claims were bolstered by the confirmation from South Korea’s defense ministry on Tuesday that more than 10,000 North Korean troops had arrived in Russia, with a “significant number” in the frontline areas including Kursk....

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