Ukraine’s General Intelligence Directorate (GUD) said today that the first Russian-trained Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are already deployed in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kiev’s armed forces entered in August, Reuters, AFP and Ukrinform reported.
The GUR statement on the Telegram social network said that about 12,000 North Korean soldiers, including 500 officers and three generals, were already in Russia, having conducted training at five military bases in the eastern part of the country.
According to the GUR, several weeks are planned to adjust the interoperability of the troops of the Asian communist country, which Moscow intends to use in its war against Ukraine.
“Moscow has appointed Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to be in charge of monitoring the training and adaptation of North Korean soldiers,” military intelligence said.
According to the GUR, the soldiers sent by Pyongyang are equipped with ammunition, have winter clothes and shoes and personal hygiene products. According to previously established norms, Moscow will provide 50 meters of toilet paper and 300 grams of soap to each of the soldiers.
” Vladimir Putin has high hopes for the North Korean contingent in the war against Ukraine and the global confrontation with the West,” GUR noted.
