The Ukrainian military intelligence service has no doubts: within a week, North Korea will send soldiers to support the Russians in the Donetsk region. The news was reported by Kim Hyung Tae, Seoul’s ambassador to Kiev, who reportedly warned presidential advisor Podolyak and also gave an interview to his country’s KNN TV. Pyongyang will make available to Putin both engineering and engineering troops, to fix damaged infrastructure and military vehicles of the Russian army, but also soldiers to be deployed on the Chasiv Yar front. “We will find out soon,” explains Chief of Staff Sirskiy, “sooner or later we will annihilate some of them and the almond-shaped eyes will become the sure proof of the wicked pact.” The news comes 9 days after Putin’s visit to Pyongyang, where he signed a comprehensive partnership and mutual defense agreement with Kim Jong-un.
The Koreans will be assigned to the Chasiv Yar front, in Donetsk, where the battle has been going on for months. Last June 9, Moscow’s military conquered the eastern suburbs, a fundamental hub for reaching Kramatorsk. Yesterday, however, the Ukrainians managed to expel the invaders from the Kanal neighborhood, once again laying their hands on almost the entire town center. «They are bombing us, even at this moment – writes Nazar Voloshin, colonel of the Khortytsia operational-strategic group on Facebook – assault operations are underway. The enemy is using flamethrower systems, but we will not be intimidated.” The probable Russian tactic is to advance towards Kramatorsk, in a pincer operation in concert with the Northern troops who are breaking through towards Kharkiv (yesterday bombed with Fab-500 bombs).
In Russia, three incidents are taking center stage, which some analysts say could actually be acts of sabotage perpetrated by the Freedom for Russia Legion group, pro-Kiev partisans. On Wednesday night, a passenger train derailed in the northern republic of Komi. Three people died, and 70 others were injured. Another accident occurred a week earlier in Ryazan, again due to structural failure of the rails, at least that’s the official version. On Monday, 8 people died in a fire in a building in Frjazino (25 km northeast of Moscow) without the actual cause being ascertained.
On the 855th day of the war, Russia carried out attacks with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles on what it believes are airfields designated to host Western F-16 fighter jets. The Redkinsky plant that produces chemicals for the aviation and space industries was damaged by Ukrainian drones. Following cyber attacks on communications infrastructure in Crimea, traffic on the Kerch Bridge was disrupted.
Prague has delivered to Ukraine tens of thousands of artillery ammunition worth 35 million. In Sevastopol, after the Uchkuevka massacre, 600 new shelters will be set up, but the beaches will not close.
