Moscow deploys North Korean soldiers to another Russian region to fight Ukraine

Ukraine ensures that North Korean militarywhich until now were located only in the Kursk region of Russia, were also transferred to Belgorodwhich borders the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine.

“Some servicemen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have been transferred to the border of the Belgorod region,” the head of the Central Intelligence Department of the National Security and Defense Council, Andri Kovalenko, wrote on Telegram.

The senior Ukrainian official stressed that “they are not found in the Kharkiv region”as some American media reported from Ukrainian sources.

In recent weeks, Pyongyang has sent a few 10,000 soldiers support the Russian army in the invasion of Ukraine, as confirmed by NATO, Washington, kyiv and Seoul.

These soldiers were so far only in Kurskwhere Ukrainian troops have occupied part of the territory since their incursion last August, to support the Kremlin forces in their expulsion from Russian territory.

This week, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) also confirmed that Pyongyang had also exported to Russia. rocket launchers and mobile artillery and that some North Korean soldiers appear to have already participated in combat operations against Ukraine, integrated into Russian airborne and maritime units.

Moscow excludes a second wave of mobilization

For its part, the Kremlin has today excluded a second wave of mobilization of reservists fight in Ukraine ahead of the fourth year of fighting in the neighboring country.

“Our citizens are very actively signing contracts with the Defense Ministry,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the official RIA Novosti agency.

Peskov emphasized that the volunteers attend courses in which they are instructed “conscientiously,” so that “now there is no need to talk about mobilization.” “There are hundreds of people signing contracts every day“, he added.

The Kremlin refrained from declaring a new partial mobilization after the first in September 2022 caused great popular discontent and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of men of military age.

The fighting in Ukraine reached this week the 1000 days Russian forces are advancing in forced marches in the Donbass, even if Moscow has not yet been able to expel Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region.