A battalion of 3,000 North Korean soldiers will shortly join Russian troops in fighting Ukraine, marking Pyongyang’s full entry into the war.

Intelligence sources said the unit has been secretly training in Russia’s Far East ahead of deployment as part of a Russian airborne regiment.

“They are called the Buryat Battalion,” a senior Ukrainian military source told Politico. Buryatia is a remote region of Russia bordering Mongolia that the Kremlin has targeted heavily for military recruitment.

The Kyiv Independent quoted another Western intelligence source claiming that North Korea had sent 10,000 soldiers to join the Russian army.

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      16 days ago

      I mean why wouldn’t they?

      Koreans have no beef with Ukraine. They’re fighting in a war for a paycheck.

      But they’re probably seeing wartorn Ukraine, with bombed out buildings and roads, and going, “Well shit this place looks better than home” and leaving.

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        15 days ago

        Fighting in war for paycheck

        Kim doesn’t operate that way, he’s got of a ‘don’t die or I’ll kill your family and put the relatives in jail’ energy