DPRK will send "engineering forces" to occupied Donetsk: how much it costs Russia - isw

This was reported at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) with reference to the South Korean TV Chosun. The South Korean TV channel quotes an unnamed source in government. It is noted that the DPRK citizens will be in the occupied territories of Ukraine in July 2024.

It is reported that the Armed Forces of North Korea have 10 engineering brigades, and TV Chosun has estimated that North Korea could receive up to $ 115 million from Russia annually in unmasaged foreign currency, if it sends three or four engineering brigades in occupied Ukraine.

Pentagon Pentagon Pentagon, Major-General Pet Rainer stated on June 25 that the United States would "monitor" this development of events, and suggested that North Korea should "questioned" his decision to send his hand as "gun meat" in the illegal actions of .

Russia and North Korea signed an agreement on a comprehensive strategic partnership on June 19, but Russian President Vladimir Putin later tried to reduce the importance of the agreement and the possibility of sending North Korean soldiers to Ukraine. ISW noted that Russia seems to be striving for a coalition of friendly states with historically warm ties with the Soviet Union, including North Korea and Vietnam, to form the basis of an alternative world order.

But the experts of the institute have not yet met messages that suggest that North Korean servicemen intend to participate in combat operations in Ukraine. However, North Korean engineering support can enable Russian soldiers who are employed in these work now, to engage in direct war, not to reconstruction or the construction of trenches, for example.