On Tuesday, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has confirmed that Ukraine’s military battled North Korean troops for the first time since Pyongyang sent its forces to help Russia.
That is according to Politico, Ukrinform reports.
In an interview with South Korean media, Umerov said there were “small-scale clashes” between Kyiv’s forces and North Korean soldiers. He did not provide further details.
On Monday, Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, said that the first soldiers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had already come under fire in the Kursk region.
According to the Pentagon, more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers are now in the Kursk region to assist Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, the Financial Times, citing Ukrainian intelligence, said that the first military clash between Ukrainian soldiers and the North Korean military took place in Russia’s Kursk region.
“At about 14:00, the occupiers shelled the village of Hlushkivka, Kupiansk district. The shelling killed two people. A man and a woman aged 48,” the post reads.
As reported, on the morning of November 5, the Russian army launched a missile attack on an enterprise in the Izium district, wounding a man./Ukrinform/
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