North Korea has sent more troops to Russia, South Korean media report

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

This is an isolated place where they can do these exchanges, where people aren’t going to notice… (where) their own citizens, and folks in the intelligence community might not notice,

Lair said

We spend a lot of time looking at North Korea in general, because of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, their conventional weapons program, their missile programs… So, we’ve been monitoring the North Korea-Russia connection since it started, in part because we think that that relationship might be going both ways,

Lair said

It’s not only about supplies of missiles, it’s about testing their missiles in real battlefield conditions,

Getmanchuk said during the forum at the Goethe Institute in Seoul

The Russians seem to have been very careful to limit the exposure of the North Korean soldiers, moving them directly to military training facilities. The motive behind all the secrecy surrounding the North Koreans is uncertain, but moving some of them through Dunai would aid in that effort,

Lair wrote in his analysis

I don’t think that the Russians or the North Koreans want these transfers caught on camera,

Sam Lair, a research associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told CNN

They came totally unprepared… Now they are learning very quickly,” adapting to their tactics to be effective in “modern, hi-tech warfare,

she added

Sending your own soldiers to fight in someone else’s conflict really suggests the strength of the connection,

he said