NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte declared this Monday, October 28, that the deployment of North Korean troops in the Russian region of Kursk, on the border with Ukraine, proves Vladimir Putin’s “growing disarray” in his war against Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that North Korean soldiers would begin fighting with the Russians against Ukrainian troops from Sunday in the Russian border region of Kursk, raising fears of a new escalation in the war.
Information to remember:
⇒ Deployment of North Korean soldiers shows Putin’s dismay, says NATO chief
⇒ Moscow claims new advance in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk
⇒ Putin hopes the West has “heard” him on strikes in Russia
Deployment of North Korean troops shows Putin’s ‘dismay’, NATO chief says
The deployment of North Korean troops in the Russian region of Kursk, on the border with Ukraine, proves the “growing dismay” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday.
“I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and that North Korean military units have been deployed in the Kursk region,” Mark Rutte said in a brief statement from Brussels. This is a “significant escalation” and a “dangerous expansion” of the war, underlined the head of the Atlantic Alliance.
But this use of North Korean troops “is also a sign of the growing disarray” of Vladimir Putin, according to Mark Rutte. “More than 600,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war led” by the Russian president, “unable to continue his assault on Ukraine without foreign support.”
kyiv says it has arrested a UN volunteer accused of spying for Moscow
kyiv announced on Monday that it had arrested a Ukrainian working as a volunteer for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), accused of “spying” for Russian forces in the east of the country.
“Under the guise of volunteering, the traitor spied on the positions of the defense forces in the Pokrovsk sector,” the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said in a statement. “During the searches, the SBU seized the detainee’s cell phone with an anonymous conversation in a messaging service, which he used to communicate with an FSB officer,” Russian intelligence, the SBU continues.
Zelensky arrived in Iceland for the Nordic Summit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this Monday that he had arrived in Iceland for the Nordic Summit, which will focus on civil and military cooperation between Ukraine and the countries of this region. “This is my first working visit to Iceland, where I will participate in the fourth Ukraine-Nordic countries summit and have bilateral talks with the participants,” the Ukrainian president wrote on his X account.
Moscow claims new advance in Ukraine’s Donetsk region
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed this Sunday the conquest of a village in eastern Ukraine, very close to the industrial town of Kurakhové, of which Moscow’s forces are now at the gates. Russian soldiers captured the village of Izmailivka, the ministry said in a statement.
This locality, very sparsely populated even before the conflict, is located approximately eight kilometers north of Kourakhové. This industrial city appears to be on the verge of being conquered by Moscow’s troops, who have moved closer in recent weeks, forcing many of its residents to flee. Further north, the large city of Pokrovsk, an important logistical hub for Ukrainian troops, is also threatened.
Ukraine accuses Russian soldiers of shooting civilians in front town
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced this Sunday that it had opened an investigation into possible shootings attributed to the Russian army on civilians in an eastern city, the scene of fighting between the forces of kyiv and Moscow.
The prosecutor’s office said it was investigating “shooting at a civilian car” and possible “murders of civilians” in Selydové, in the Donetsk region. They explained that they were basing themselves on a video broadcast by a Telegram channel linked to the Ukrainian army, the authenticity of which could not be immediately verified by AFP, as well as on press information.
On Thursday, October 24, Russian soldiers “reportedly fired automatic weapons at a civilian car in the locality,” the prosecutor’s office said. Two civilians were inside and one of them was injured before being rescued by Ukrainian soldiers, according to the same source.
Putin hopes the West has ‘heard’ him on Russia strikes
Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that the West has “heard” his warnings against a possible green light that would be given to Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory with Western weapons, in an interview broadcast this Sunday on Telegram .
“They didn’t tell me anything about this, I hope they heard, because of course we will also have to make certain decisions” in return, warned Vladimir Putin in an interview broadcast on Telegram by a journalist from the Russian presidential pool.