President of the Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in a press conference at the EU leaders summit in Brussels on Thursday that North Korea has joined war against Ukraine, according to Ukrainian National News (UNN).
“I know that there is an intention to train 10,000 soldiers from different branches of the (Korean) military: ground forces, air forces, that is, an entire brigade” he is reported to have said.
“That is, he (Putin) wants to involve not only infantry, but also specialists from various branches of the military” he continued. “What we know is that North Korea is already preparing a contingent to fight against Ukraine.”
According to the report Zelenskyy added that he had talked to the United States about what he described as a very urgent matter “I have already spoken with a number of leaders that it is an officially confirmed fact that the second country is getting involved in the war and will fight against Ukraine as a contingent alongside Russia.”
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