{"id":11730,"date":"2024-11-05T21:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=11730"},"modified":"2024-11-05T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:45:34","slug":"north-korean-troops-in-russia-are-shelled-by-ukrainian-forces-an-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/north-korean-troops-in-russia-are-shelled-by-ukrainian-forces-an-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean troops in Russia are shelled by Ukrainian forces, an official says"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

North Korean troops recently deployed to help Russia in its war with Ukraine have come under Ukrainian fire, a Kyiv official said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It is the first time a Ukrainian official has said that Pyongyang\u2019s units were struck, following a deployment that has given the war a new complexion as it approaches its 1,000-day milestone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first North Korean troops have already been shelled, in the Kursk region,\u201d Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation branch of Ukraine\u2019s Security Council, wrote on Telegram. He provided no further details.<\/p>\n

Western governments had expected that the North Korean soldiers would be sent to Russia\u2019s Kursk border region, where a 3-month-old incursion by the Ukrainian army is the first occupation of Russian territory since World War II and has embarrassed the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

U.S., South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence assessments say up to 12,000 North Korean combat troops are being sent by Pyongyang to the war under a pact with Moscow.<\/p>\n

The North Korean troops, whose fighting quality and battle experience is unknown, are adding to Ukraine\u2019s worsening situation on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian defenses, especially in the eastern Donetsk region, are buckling under the strain of Russia\u2019s costly but relentless monthslong onslaught.<\/p>\n

Russian advances have recently accelerated, with battlefield gains of up to 9 kilometers (more than 5 miles) in some parts of Donetsk, the U.K. Defense Ministry said Tuesday on the social platform X.<\/p>\n

It said Russia has superior troop numbers, and despite heavy casualties the Kremlin\u2019s recruitment drive is providing enough new troops to keep up the pressure.<\/p>\n

Russia has held the battlefield initiative in Ukraine for the past year. Ukrainian officials have long complained that Western military support takes too long to arrive in the country.<\/p>\n

In early October, Russian forces drove Ukrainian troops out of Vuhledar, a town perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It was part of a key belt of Ukrainian defenses in the east. Russia\u2019s next targets likely are the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk and the strategically important city of Chasiv Yar.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Russia has kept up its long-range aerial attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine, authorities say.<\/p>\n

A Tuesday morning attack on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia killed six people and injured 16 others, regional Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.<\/p>\n

The head of Ukraine\u2019s presidential office, Andrii Yermak, said the Russian attacks \u201cmust be stopped with strong action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA stronger position by (Ukraine\u2019s Western) allies is needed,\u201d he wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korean troops recently deployed to help Russia in its war with Ukraine have come under Ukrainian fire, a Kyiv official said Tuesday. It is the first time a Ukrainian official has said that Pyongyang\u2019s units were struck, following a deployment that has given the war a new complexion as it approaches its 1,000-day milestone. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}