Volodymyr Zelensky: "Russia wants to bring in another 30,000 North Korean troops"

President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that Moscow is arranging to host an extra 30,000 fighters from North Korea, saying that preparatory activity has been underway in Russia’s Voronezh area since June. His remark comes after reports that Russian forces used ballistic rockets of North Korean origin in an assault on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, which resulted in seven civilian deaths, dozens of injuries and damage to a major steel mill that forced a temporary shutdown. Ukrainian officials also said comparable weapons were employed in earlier strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions. Intelligence sources reported that a formation equipped with North Korean rockets has been positioned in Voronezh, capable of firing a large stockpile, while roughly 12,000 North Korean troops are already deployed in the adjacent Kursk region.