Putin admits North Korea sent troops to Russia
Last Updated on October 27, 2024 5:18 am
Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted sending North Korean troops to Russia.
He admitted this during his speech at the closing ceremony of the BRICS summit in Kazan on Thursday (October 24).
Putin said at the conference that how Russia’s mutual defense relationship with Pyongyang will develop depends on Moscow. The British newspaper Guardian reported this news.
Putin blamed the West for the escalation of the Ukraine war. He said that if the West thinks that they can inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, they are “delusional.”
The United States claimed that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia in Ukraine, and they have evidence of this.
When a journalist asked about a satellite image showing the movement of North Korean troops, Putin said in response that the images are a serious matter. If such images exist, then they are doing something.
He said that the West has escalated the Ukraine crisis. He also claimed that NATO officers and trainers were directly involved in the war in Ukraine at the time.
Putin said, “We know who is there, from which European NATO country and how they do it.”
The United States and South Korea claimed that North Korean troops had arrived in Ukraine. But they also suspected that Putin may have deliberately spread such rumors to reduce Ukrainian morale. It is also noteworthy that since he did not deny the claim, there is a high chance that he did so in reality.
On Thursday, Ukraine’s military intelligence service said that the first units of North Koreans trained in Russia had been deployed in the Kursk region. Kursk is a border area with Russia where Ukrainian forces launched a major offensive in August.