Last week, reports from South Korea and Ukraine revealed that thousands of North Korean soldiers are being prepared at training centers in eastern Russia to go to the Russian front. According to the US and South Korea, it is about 3,000 soldiers, but according to Kiev, more than 12,000 North Korean soldiers have already arrived in Russia. The West and Ukraine see the deployment of these troops against Ukrainian troops as a further escalation of the war. According to Putin, Russia is not to blame for the escalation of the war against Ukraine. He blamed the supply of weapons to Kyiv from the West.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he expected Russia to deploy North Korean troops to the front on Sunday or Monday. The president based this statement on intelligence reports.