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The 810th Marine Brigade of the Russian federation has taken unimaginable losses in assaults on positions in the Kursk region over the last 5 days, newly conscripted soldiers thrown into the most dangerous combat positions in Ukraine the result is obvious from this image."
WarMonitor said
Very bloody battles are going on in Kursk oblast. After a failed attack at the first day of operation the enemy used a bare minimum in terms of using AFV at my flank and in the centre."
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Russian forces have trained the DPRK soldiers in artillery, in UAV and basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, which are critical skills for front-line operations,
Patel saidThe National Intelligence Service estimates that North Korean troops dispatched to Russia have moved to the Kursk region over the past two weeks,
the agency said in a statement
Some of the challenges they would need to overcome are interoperability, the language barrier, command and control and communications,
Patel said
We are incredibly concerned by Russia's decision to turn to the DPRK to supply soldiers to continue their brutal war against Ukraine,
Patel told a press briefingOver 10,000 DPRK (North Korean) soldiers have been sent to eastern Russia, and most of them have moved to the far western Kursk Oblast, where they have begun engaging in combat operations with Russian forces,
State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters at a briefingHowever, this psychological preparation may not translate effectively into practical resilience in the type of active combat scenarios currently seen in Ukraine, where they would face modernized and highly capable opposition in unfamiliar territory,
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The first battles with North Korean soldiers open a new page of instability in the world,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week[The ... The assaults] could begin in the near future, we’re not even talking about weeks, we’re expecting it to happen any day,
said Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for the southern military sector
The Russians damaged the dam of the reservoir of Kurakhove. This strike potentially threatens residents of settlements on the Vovcha River, both in Donetsk and Dnipro regions,
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It is completely untrue. It is pure fiction; it is simply false information,
the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said when asked about the callThey are preparing both armoured groups and light vehicles – buggies, motorcycles – to conduct these assault operations,
he added
These people have grown up knowing what they cannot say and they will not be suicidal heroes and speak out about their experiences,
Lankov said
A lot of these soldiers are just humble farm boys from the countryside or junior officers who will be seeing the world beyond North Korea's borders for the first time and that will certainly make them understand that their country is isolated and extremely poor,
Andrei Lankov, a Russian-born professor of history and international relations at Seoul's Kookmin University, told DWThere have been reports that North Korean troops have been airlifted from training facilities in the Russian Far East, and it is possible they decided to fly them simply because they did not want them to see Russian towns from trains as they crossed the country,
he told DW, addingEven if much of what they are going to see will be around the front lines and will be battle-damaged villages and so on, they will still have seen the countryside of Russia before they get there and they will inevitably begin to ask themselves why their country is not rich like Russia,
he addedThey will very quickly realize the backwardness of North Korea, although I imagine the officers will try to keep the men segregated from the general population as much as possible to limit their interactions,
he saidThere will be an impact of these soldiers from what they see and do in Russia, but we cannot expect that to be politically meaningful for a couple of decades, at least,
he said