Russia-Ukraine war live: North Korea preparing to send more troops to Russia, says South Korea | World news

Ukraine’s air force said on Monday that 47 out of 72 Russian drones were shot down over the country, while 25 more failed to hit targets.

In a statement on Telegram, he said that the military attack on nine regions, including the Kyiv region, surrounding the capital of Ukraine, had been repelled.

According to the air force, unidentified private property and houses were damaged in the Kyiv region and the western region of Khmelnytskyi.

One person was injured in the Khmelnytskyi region and a power line was damaged in the Kyiv region, according to local authorities.

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Let’s start the message South Korea’s military said on Monday that it had detected signs of North Korea preparing to send more troops and weapons, including drones, to Russia to support the war against Ukraine.

North Korea has already deployed multiple 240mm rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled howitzers, Reuters reported, and it appears to be preparing to launch more suicide bombers to Russia after leader Kim Jong-un conducted a test last month, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

“Suicide drones are one of the tasks that Kim Jong-un intends,” a JCS official said, adding that the North expressed its intention to give them to Russia.

Such drones were widely used in the war in Ukraine and Kim ordered the mass production of aerial weapons and the renewal of military theory and education, challenging to increase the global conflict, state media reported.

Seoul, Washington and Kyiv have said that about 12,000 Korean troops are in Russia. The JCS said at least 1,100 of them had been killed or wounded in the battle last week, according to a South Korean spy agency that reported over 100 deaths with another 1,000 wounded in the Kursk region.

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• Russian President Vladimir Putin met Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by a European Union leader to Moscow; as the contract allowing Russian gas to pass through Ukraine is now at the border.

• Russia has captured two more towns in eastern Ukraine, the latest territorial gains for Moscow’s army. The Ministry of Defense said in a Telegram on Sunday that its forces had “liberated” the villages of Lozova in the northern region of Kharkiv and Krasnoye – Sontsivka in Ukraine.

• Zelenskyy told Ukrainian diplomats on Sunday that the country would fight to convince its allies allows you to cancel your membershipBut he described the plan as “activable” as he seeks security measures to protect Russia.

• Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said that he thought that the sometimes harsh criticism of the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Ukrainians was unfair.the news wire DPA reported. Although Germany was a vital ally of Ukraine, its reluctance to deploy the Taurus long-range missile system was a source of frustration for Kyiv, which was contending with an enemy armed with a powerful array of long-range weapons.

• Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, Dmytro Lubinets, Sunda claimed.y. Russian forces captured five unarmed soldiers, Lubinetta alleged in the Telegram, without providing further details.

• A video as well A Russian show captured by an Australian man fighting for Ukraine on the eastern war front has prompted an urgent investigation by the Australian government.. A man who called himself Oscar JenkinsHe is beaten several times and questioned harshly in a Russian film, which is based on Telegram.

• A Ukrainian drone struck a major Russian fuel port for the second time in a week on Sundayaccording to a senior Russian regional official, as part of a “major” cross-border attack on fuel and energy facilities that Kyiv says supply Moscow’s military.