Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday North Korean troops had suffered casualties in combat with Kyiv's forces and that some of the 11,000 troops sent to Russia's Kursk region had taken part in fighting.

Ukrainian troops have entered combat against North Korean soldiers in Kursk, a member of the country’s national security and defense council claimed. Andrii Kovalenko, a high-ranking official in the council’s anti-disinformation branch,

The upper house of Russian parliament has ratified a treaty with North Korea envisioning mutual military assistance.