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[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,
the region’s Governor Vadym Filashkin said.jpg)
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
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 DW
These people have grown up knowing what they cannot say and they will not be suicidal heroes and speak out about their experiences,
Lankov saidThere 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 saidIt is reported that the video shows a North Korean mercenary fighting on the side of the Russian Federation, when he was watching dancing girls on social networks,
posted the pro-Kyiv X channel MilitaryNewsUa
I'll show you the accommodation of our new friends,
the unnamed soldier says in the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, by WarTranslated (Dmitri) as he says in a disgruntled tone that North KoreanPutin's elite have somehow managed to become not just second-rate, but third-rate soldiers in their own army,
wrote WarTranslated (Dmitri) next to the footage.jpg)
I wonder if they are really special forces,
Kim said, ... according to the Korea TimesThey do not appear to be the finest members, however,
he told the outlet
Among them, the elite forces are deployed overseas on highly dangerous missions, such as the kidnapping and assassination of North Korean defectors, missionaries, and covert South Korean agents,
said Lee, who The Associated Press reported served in the Storm Corps from 1998 to 2003.They will pave the way for the more experienced ones,
he told the outletIt was an ordinary combat engagement in the Kursk region,
Andrii Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, told Business Insider's Mia JankowiczCarrying out an order of their military leadership, [the Russian forces] are trying to dislodge our troops and advance deep into the territory we control,
Syrskyi wrote on the Telegram messaging app
These tens of thousands of enemies from the best Russian shock units would have stormed our positions in the Pokrovsk, Kurakhiv or Toretsk directions, which would have significantly worsened the situation at the front,
he said