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Symbolic image: Zelensky says North Korea to send up to 50,000 troops to RussiaSymbolic image

Zelensky says North Korea to send up to 50,000 troops to Russia

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Ukrainian President Zelensky said on Sunday that Pyongyang is preparing a deployment of that size to Russia. Reuters and Nikkei Asia carried the statement; the figure is not independently confirmed.

Both reports, dated Sunday, 9 August, are brief agency items: neither gives a timeframe, a destination for the soldiers, nor the basis for the figure. Kyiv presents the number as a sharp increase on earlier North Korean deployments to Russia. On that account, Pyongyang would become a significant supplier of manpower for Moscow's summer campaign. Beyond the president's own assertion, the two published texts offer no corroborating detail.

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Russian and North Korean outlets are absent from the day's sources: the figure circulates so far only through Western and Japanese agency reporting (Reuters, Nikkei Asia), with no response from Moscow or Pyongyang in either item.

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