This is a “significant escalation” and a “dangerous expansion” of the war, underlined the head of the Atlantic Alliance.
The “strengthening of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea constitutes a threat to Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic security,” he said.
But this use of North Korean troops “is also a sign of the growing disarray” of Vladimir Putin, according to Mark Rutte. “More than 600,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war led” by the Russian president, “unable to continue his assault against Ukraine without foreign support.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that North Korean soldiers would begin fighting with Russians against Ukrainian troops from Sunday in the Russian border region of Kursk, raising fears of a new escalation in the war between Russia and Ukraine for 32 months.
Volodymyr Zelensky called on Westerners to “punish” the Russia-North Korea duo. The two countries have become very close over the past two years, with Pyongyang being accused in particular of supplying ammunition to the Russian army.
North Korea, for its part, assured that any deployment of its troops in Russia would be “in accordance” with international law, without confirming or denying the presence of its soldiers, already denounced by the United States and South Korea in recent days. .
