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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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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago
[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 49 minutes 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.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 hours ago

Soooo… is it a world war yet?

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

World special military operation

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

World scuffle

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago

No, but getting there.

[-] Saff@lemmy.ml 49 points 5 hours ago

Any North Korean soldiers captured should be held prisoner in some Scandinavian prison and fed nothing but the most decadent and tasty foods. Then when the war is over send them back to NK fatter than Kim Jon Un. That would be a real power play.

[-] interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 hours ago

You can't serve Scandinavian food to prisonners it is forbidden by the Geneva convention.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 23 points 5 hours ago

If meatballs and mashed potatoes with lingonberry sauce are against the Geneva convention it's probably time we had on Oslo convention.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Smorgasbord all day every day would be Tortute!

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Because it causes Stockholm syndrome?

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I was kind of on board with that idea, but now i'm100% on board

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 hours ago

You can tell Russia's desperate because they've got the North Koreans involved.

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 hours ago

With the current attrition rate of Russian forces, these 3K troops will likely be expended in ~2.3 days..

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 29 points 7 hours ago

What Russia likes about North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine: Manpower!

What North Korea likes about North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine: Money!

What North Korean Soldiers like about North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine: Freedom!

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago

The great Russian army. The great russian army with the best weapons and tanks and soldiers.

What a paper tiger.

BTW it's rumored that they are running out of both tanks and bmps. If trump doesn't win (if he does, it will just take longer) the whole russia will collapse like the soviet union did in 1991. The ruble is already in free fall, inflation at 20%, the economy is overheating and fewer and fewer young people left to work or be killed.

I just hope it crumbles as soon as possible but I guess this insane war has to drag on for some 6 months to a year.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

I mean you list all of that and ignore the biggest elephant in the room. 40% GDP spent on the war.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Or more.

Just to be clear, the war economy will hasten the downfall of Russia (they no longer publish inflation numbers, rumours are they are way over 20% maybe even at 40%. The central bank is already lending at 19% which is crazy) but it won't help much with tanks and btrs, as the vast majority of the "new" ones are refurbished ones pulled out from long time storage, and even the "bad" ones are drying up, it's impossible to know but it could be the end of both tanks & btrs this month or next month or so.

Russia builds just a handfull (less than 10) every month, they almost lose that many every day.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 points 6 hours ago

BTW it’s rumored that they are running out of both tanks and bmps.

I feel like people have been saying this for about 2 years. We should believe it when we see it.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

We do see it lol. There are people who get satellite photos of tankyards in Russia. They pay Google to take a new photo over a specific base, count the tanks, armored vehicles and trucks, and make a youtube video about it. Russia is losing an enormous amounts of tanks. They can't retrofit enough of the old stock to keep up with the losses, let alone produce new tanks.

[-] derGottesknecht@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago

Look Up covert cabal on YouTube. He works together with a guy called himarsed to painstakingly count tanks, bumps and other stuff on commercial satellite imagery and regularly posts updates on the Russian arsenals. And they are pretty empty now

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 10 points 7 hours ago

Dictatorships can take a lot of abuse before falling apart. Look at North Korea. People are starving and still that fuckers in power.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Dictatorships only stand because of the military. The military which is currently being slaughtered en masse in a war they didn't need. We are one week "where decades happen" away from Russia colapsing. Shit like Prigozin, like Kadyrov launching a blood feud, etc.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Predictions of Russia’s collapse are like predictions that Putin’s health is about to fail: a dime a dozen on the Internet for years now and nothing ever comes of them.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

As long as they can find soldiers and equipment somewhere and the economy doesn't completely collapse, they can keep going. It will get harder every year but I think it could still go on for years more.

[-] aggelalex@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

What a great opportunity for those north Koreans to defect to Europe

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