Vitaly Sayenko15:56, 17.10.24

In this way, the Kremlin wants to avoid mobilization in Russia.

Officers from North Korea are already training soldiers of the Russian invading army on the occupied territory of Ukraine. As UNIAN correspondent reports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this at a press conference after participating in a meeting of the European Council.

“We have information from our intelligence that, indeed, this is a big problem. First of all, officers from North Korea are already in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and they are training Russian soldiers. I do not know how many officers there are. But there is data intelligence that Russia is counting on such reinforcements, because Russia is not in time with mobilization, it is losing too much on the battlefield,” Zelenskyy said.

He added that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin knows that Russian society is against mobilization.

“That is why he is looking for external support. And I know that there is such an intention to train 10,000 soldiers from various branches of the military, land and land forces. That is, a whole brigade. He wants to involve not only the infantry, but also specialists from various branches of the military. And we know that North Korea is currently preparing a contingent to send and fight against Ukraine,” Zelenskyi emphasized.

The head of state added that he had already spoken about it with a number of different leaders, including the United States.

“This is actually an official fact of confirmation that the second country is involved in the war and will fight against Ukraine alongside Russia,” Zelenskyy said.

(C)UNIAN 2024