NKorea deploys additional troops to Russia

The exact scale is still being assessed,

the official said

Everyone who joined the army with me is dead,

he said

We are in close communication with relevant ministries on these worrisome developments,

foreign ministry spokesperson Lee Jae-woong said during a briefing when asked about North Korea's latest troop dispatch

After about a month-long lull, more North Korean troops were sent to the Kursk frontline region in the first week of February. The additional deployment is estimated to exceed 1,000 troops, but the exact number is still being assessed,

the spy agency said in a statement

We don't think that the reaction of the international community has been sufficient,

spokesman Georgiy Tykhy told reporters, including AFP

This is, I think, a wake-up call for everyone globally to understand that the security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific has never been more directly linked than it is today,

Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesman said in response to the reports

Last year was a turning point in achieving our goals. The Kyiv regime will no longer be able to significantly change the situation on the battlefield,

Rudskoi said

A difficult night for the Kirovohrad region,

Andriy Raikovych, governor of the Kirovohrad region said in a post on the Telegram messaging app

She received wounds to her leg, she has been hospitalised,

Kalashnyk said in a post on the Telegram messaging app

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

Rescue operations are underway in Odesa after another Russian attack on the energy infrastructure,

Zelensky said

North Korean troops were moved to Russia sometime in January and February this year... North Korea is also making preparations to send additional troops to Russia."

The NIS told Yonhap

Russian forces continued attacking in Kursk Oblast on February 26 but did not make any confirmed advances."

The ISW on Wednesday

The presence of DPRK troops has not been observed for about three weeks, and they were probably forced to withdraw after suffering heavy losses,

Oleksandr Kindratenko was cited as telling CNN

There also appear to have been additional troop deployments,

the official added, ... noting

It appears that there has been a deployment of additional troops, but their size is still being examined,

the NIS was quoted as saying by South Korea’s state-funded Yonhap News Agency