North Korean troops reach combat zone

Ukraine says North Korean troops have arrived in the “combat zone” in Russia’s Kursk border region to help Moscow troops fighting off a Ukrainian incursion

At least 3,000 North Korean troops undergoing training in eastern Russia, U.S. says. Total of 12,000 soldiers could eventually be deployed

250 miles
400km
Russian training bases
RUSSIA
CHINA
NORTH
KOREA
JAPAN
SOUTH
KOREA
Pyongyang
Blagoveshchensk
Khabarovsk
Ussuriysk
Wonsan
Vladivostok

RUSSIA
Kyiv
300km
185 miles
RUSSIA
UKRAINE

Russian fortifications
Claimed Ukrainian advance, Oct 24
Russian advance
Claimed Russian advance

KURSK OBLAST
6 miles
10km
Lyubimovka
Malaya
Loknya
Viktotovka
Snagost
Sverdlikovo
Korenevo
Zhuravli
Sudzha
R U S S I A
U K R A I N E

North Korean troops spotted by Ukrainian spies in Kursk region on Oct 23

Sources: Reuters, AP, Institute for the Study of War
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