88 minutes ago South Korea warns it can send arms to Ukraine after reports of North's troops in Russia

South Korea warns it could consider supplying weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea allegedly dispatching troops to Russia

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1 hour ago Putin sends defiant message to the West as he gathers world leaders for BRICS summit to show sanctions aren't working (but cracks are showing between his most powerful 'allies')

The summit, running from October 22-24 will be the biggest held in Russia since Putin ordered troops to storm across the border of Ukraine more than two-and-a-half years ago

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18 hours ago North Korean arms more significant than troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Intelligence builds that members of Pyongyang’s special forces are in Russia preparing for combat as munitions are also shippedUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: “Another state,” he said, was “joining the war against Ukraine”. He was referring to the growing intelligence that shows elite soldiers from North Korea are in Russia preparing to join what has become a fight that, in effect, extends all the way across Asia.The effect will be greater than the numbers believed to be involved. On Friday, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported that 1,500 members of Pyongyang’s special forces had crossed the border to Vladivostok in Russia’s far east to begin training and some degree of participation in the war in U...

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19 hours ago Leaked footage shows North Korean troops being kitted out in Russia as elite 'Storm Corps' unit prepares for deployment in Ukraine

The video shows uniformed special forces soldiers picking up clothes and other apparel to stuff into their backpacks as they are acclimatising in Russia.

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21 hours ago Watch: Ukraine video appears to show North Korean troops at Russian military base

A Ukrainian video appears to show North Korean soldiers receiving uniforms and equipment at a training ground in Russia.

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