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A South Korean lawmaker says roughly 15-hundred further troops dispatched by North Korea for Russia’s struggle in opposition to Ukraine seem to have already been deployed to the battlefield.
Rep. Yu Yong-weon from the ruling Individuals Energy Occasion, who lately visited Ukraine, made the declare Wednesday, citing the Protection Intelligence of the Ministry of Protection of Ukraine.
North Korea, which despatched about eleven-thousand troops to Russia in October, dispatched further troops round January or February.
The lawmaker informed a radio present that he heard from the Ukrainian authorities that North Korea was dispatching further troops to complement the Russian forces, and that one other group of troops is making ready for deployment to the battlefield.
Yu stated South Korea’s spy company estimates that North Korean troops have suffered 36-hundred casualties, whereas the Ukrainian protection intelligence authorities put the quantity at about 4 thousand, together with about 4 hundred deaths.