Zelensky "confirms Russia with aid to North Korea's workforce...In fact, he participated in the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says North Korea has confirmed that it supplies Russia with manpower as well as weapons.

According to AFP and Reuters, President Zelensky appeared in parliament on the 16th local time and explained that North Korea is actually participating in the war in Ukraine on Russia's side, saying, "Putin's criminal coalition has already included North Korea."

"These are Russian factories and military personnel to replace the Russians who died in the war," Zelensky said, adding, "In fact, this is the participation of a second country in the war against Ukraine," while China and Iran, along with North Korea, called them "criminal unions."

Earlier, Ukrainian media reported that six North Korean soldiers were included among more than 20 Russian soldiers killed in a missile attack on the Donetsk front on the 3rd.

Since then, there have been a series of reports citing Ukrainian military and intelligence sources, such as that the Russian military is forming a 3,000-strong "Buryat Special Battalion" consisting of North Korean troops or that North Korea has already sent 10,000 troops to Russia.