Ukrainian forces bomb North Korean troops in Russia

2024-11-05 15:55:45, Kosova & Bota CNA

North Korean troops that were sent to Russia recently to support the Russian military in its war in Ukraine have been attacked by Ukrainian forces, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.

This is the first time a Ukrainian official has announced that Pyongyang's military units have been attacked following their deployment, which represents a new complication in the war.

"North Korean troops have been bombed, in the Kursk region," said the head of the counter-disinformation sector Andrii Kovalenko in a post on the Telegram platform. He gave no other details.

Western governments had predicted that North Korean soldiers would be sent to the border region of Kursk, inside Russia, where three months ago the Ukrainian army took control of some Russian territory for the first time since World War II, embarrassing Kremlin.

According to estimates by the intelligence agencies of the United States, South Korea and Ukraine, Pyongyang has sent about 12,000 forces to the war under an agreement with Moscow.

North Korean forces, whose quality on the battlefield remains unknown, are contributing to the deterioration of the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian army, especially in the Donetsk region, has begun to feel the pressure of the continuous Russian attack.

Russia's advances on the ground have accelerated in recent months, with battlefield victories reaching in some cases as far as 9 kilometers in various areas of Donetsk, Britain's Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday in a post on Platform X.

According to her, Russia has numerically more forces and despite the large number of losses in soldiers, the Kremlin is proving successful in the recruitment process, managing to send new forces to the battlefield.

Russia has advanced on the battlefield over the past year. Ukrainian officials have long complained that Western military support is lagging.

In early October, Russian forces took control of Vuhledar, a tactically important hilltop town in eastern Ukraine.

He was an important part of the eastern defense front of Ukraine. Russia's next targets are thought to be a logistics hub in Pokrovsk and the strategically important town of Chasiv Yar.

Meanwhile, Russia has continued to launch long-range missile attacks on settlements, according to authorities.

An attack on Tuesday morning in the city of Zaporizhia left six people dead and 16 others wounded, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.

The chief of staff of the president of Ukraine, Andrii Yermak, said that the Russian attacks "must be stopped with a strong action".

"We need a stronger stance of Ukraine's western allies" , he wrote on the Telegram platform./ VOA