Potential withdrawal of North Korean soldiers who, according to kyiv and the West, fight with the Russian army in the Koursk region: the Kremlin refuses to comment
Referring to unidentified American and Ukrainian sources, the New York Times said Thursday that the North Korean soldiers had no longer been seen on the Koursk front📍– Region partially occupied by Ukrainians – for two weeks.
An advisor to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, said on Wednesday on X that “Some North Korean units have been removed from the front line in the Koursk region, according to reports from the Ukrainian special operations forces”.
These sources explain this withdrawal by the heavy losses that these units would have suffered in the fighting, to take up the Ukrainians the hundreds of square kilometers of Russian territory which they control.
Asked Friday by the France-Presse agency (AFP) on the assertions of the New York Times During a briefing in Moscow, the spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, refused to comment. ” There is [dans le quotidien américain] Many different things, righteous, false, misleading, distortions of reality, that's why it is probably not appropriate for [les] comment each time. We will not [donc] not “he said.
For its part, the Ukrainian army also did not wish to comment immediately on the words of the American media and Mr. Podoliak, reports AFP.
Seoul, kyiv and Washington claim that North Korea has since deployed some 11,000 soldiers in the Koursk region since last October to help resume the territory.
Source: Lemonde