Kursk is a Russian border area where Ukrainian forces staged a major incursion in August.
Ukrainian soldiers in a tank near Sumy, Ukraine, driving on the main road near the Russian border towards the Kursk region, in August 2024.
The Kremlin has previously dismissed reports about the North's troop deployment as"fake news". But Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Oct 24 that it was Moscow's business how to implement a partnership treaty with Pyongyang."The first units of the military from the DPRK, which were trained at the eastern Russian training grounds, have already arrived in the combat zone of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was responsible for overseeing the training of North Korean military, the agency said. including special forces, to Russia's Far East for training and acclimatising at military bases there, probably to be deployed for combat in the war.
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