North Korea to send 50,000 troops to Russia, Ukraine claims.

Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia has surged from a few hundred to tens of thousands in under two months. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Moscow could receive up to 50,000 North Korean soldiers, based on Kyiv’s current estimates. The sharp increase in reported numbers suggests a major escalation in foreign military involvement in the conflict. Ukrainian officials have not provided detailed evidence for the revised figure, but they describe the trend as a rapid buildup. The deployment would mark one of the largest foreign troop contributions to Russia’s war effort since the invasion began.