The technical advisors of North Korean armed forces they arrived in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupoloccupied by Russia in the south, and in the region of Kharkiv. In Mariupol the units of Pyongyang they remain detached from the Russian ones they are supporting, while in Kharkiv “they are dividing themselves into units gathering small groups on the front line”.
The directions come from Ukrainian military leaders and cite radio intercepts that seem to confirm the involvement of the soldiers in battle Kim Jong Un alongside the troops of Vladimir Putin. From Kiev It should be remembered that on the ground the advance claimed by Moscow is limited while in the Russian region of Kursk the Ukrainian military is determined to stay.
Focus on deployed forces and Ukrainian resilience
In a region where they are approx 11,000 North Korean troops deployed to support the Russian army after the occupation of some areas by the Ukrainians and where the army of Kiev he is determined to stay as long as necessary. Or rather, “until it makes sense.”
Sources of Ukrainian General Staff they thus shift the focus of the military tug-of-war with Moscow, keeping the point on that battlefield which has become emblematic of the war which has been fought on the ground for months now, yielding and gaining a few meters a day, even now under the threat of Russian hypersonic missiles whose echoes alarm far beyond Ukrainian borders.
Situation in the Kursk region
At the moment, Ukrainian forces still control «approx 800 km²” in the region of Kurskthe military specifies: «The maximum territory we occupied in the region was 1,376 km²today is around 800 km²»they underline, as if demonstrating resilience, on the ground precisely.
Announcements from Moscow and tensions in Donbass
So while Fly announces that it has conquered another village in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk – that of Novodmytryvkain the city area of Khurakovo and which brings the number of settlements occupied by Russians in the region in the last week to five, again according to Moscow – the Ukrainian military leaders are trying to downsize, stating for example that in the Pokrovsklogistics hub of the same region, the situation “has practically not changed in the last two months”.
Hypersonic missile threat
In general, always according to the Kiev General StaffRussian troops are advancing “200-300 meters per day” near the industrial town of Kurakhovoone of the hottest spots in the region. And also on the missile threat theUkraine attempts to downplay the alarm: according to military sources, the Russia it only has a “limited number” of hypersonic ballistic missiles Oreshnikthat is, the one used yesterday by Moscow in the attack against Dnipro and which has led to talk of the risk of “global war”. But Vladimir Putin he responded promptly, stating that he had ordered its “mass production”. “No system in the world is capable of intercepting it,” assured the Tsar.
Ukrainian parliament closed for fear of attacks
Today the Ukrainian parliament it closed due to fears of attacks in the heart of the capital. There Roadstead made it known that he had “cancelled” the session due to “signs of a growing risk of attacks against the government district in the coming days”, several deputies explained to AFP. The neighborhood in the center of Kievwhere the presidency, the seat of government and the Central Bank are also located, has so far been spared from the bombings. But now nothing is taken for granted anymore.