While traveling in Oceania, the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, spoke about the presence of North Korean soldiers on the front. Regiments which could “soon” fight against the Ukrainian forces according to him.
If North Korea had sent troops to support the Russian army, they had until then been trained in the Kursk region, in Russia. The United States anticipates that the thousands of North Korean troops stationed in Russia will “Soon” fight the Ukrainian forces, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said on Saturday, November 23 while traveling in Fiji.
The US Secretary of Defense estimates that some 10,000 members of the North Korean army are in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine and is partly occupied by the Ukrainian army, and are there “integrated into Russian formations”.
Not yet “actively engaged in combat”
“Based on what they have been trained to do, the way in which they have been integrated into Russian formations, I fully expect to see them engaged in combat soon”Lloyd Austin told reporters from the Fiji Islands, where he is visiting.
Lloyd Austin said he did not “did not see any significant information” reporting North Korean soldiers “actively engaged in combat” to this day. According to information from CNNNorth Korean soldiers have already been seen near Mariupol and Kharkiv.
Still according to the American media, Russian and North Korean troops have not yet been mixed. Initially, the media interviewed a person claiming to be an army spokesperson who explained having seen North Korean soldiers in Kharkiv.
Information denied by the Ukrainian army, explaining that “the person who is the first source of this information is not the official spokesperson and has commented on the operational situation beyond his competence”, in a post on Facebook.
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.
kyiv warned that Russia had assembled some 50,000 soldiers, including several thousand North Korean soldiers, to regain control of areas of the Kursk region occupied by the Ukrainian army which launched an offensive there in early August.
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