Pyongyang units have been shelled in the Kursk region as US intelligence says up to 12,000 North Korean soldiers are being sent to fight in the war.
Ukraine has begun firing on North Korean troops inside Russia for the first time since they were deployed in the conflict, a Kyiv official said. They added that Pyongyang's units were struck in the Kursk region of Russia following a deployment that was criticised by the US and Ukraine's other Western allies. US, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence assessments say up to 12,000 North Korean combat troops are being sent by Pyongyang to the war under a pact with Moscow.
Ukrainian defences, especially in the eastern Donetsk region, are buckling under the strain of Russia's nearly 1,000-day-long war Russian advances have recently accelerated, with battlefield gains of up to 9kms in some parts of Donetsk, the British Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter. It said Russia has superior troop numbers, and despite heavy casualties the Kremlin's recruitment drive is providing enough new troops to keep up the pressure.
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