Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says war with Russia is being pushed ‘beyond borders’ as North Korea joins in
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the North Korean troops expected to join Russian forces on the front line in Ukraine are pushing the war 'beyond the borders' of the warring countries.
Zelenskyy said he spoke to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and told him that 3,000 North Korean soldiers are already at military bases close to the Ukrainian front line and that he expects that deployment to increase to 12,000.
At the Pentagon on Tuesday, spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said a "relatively small number" of North Korean troops are now in Russia's Kursk region, where Russian troops have been struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion, and a couple thousand more are heading in that direction.
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