South Korea will pull staff from Kyiv over North Korean POW handover made public at the UN
Korean officials put the cut at about half the embassy’s staff. Ukraine’s foreign minister calls the matter closed.
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Taliban and North Korea rubbed shoulders at Russia’s war games—one fuels Moscow’s war, the other needs its help
Two isolated governments in Russia's orbit turned up at the same drills—though only Kabul has said they met.
The Kremlin calls mobilization talk “nonsense”—Zelenskyy says it has already begun, with North Korean reinforcements
The claim comes from Ukraine's military intelligence, which has tracked Russian preparations for a larger call-up for months.
Ukraine’s disclosure of secret North Korean POW transfer sparks South Korea’s demand for an apology
Seoul says Kyiv broke a promise to keep the transfer of two North Korean soldiers quiet, and Kyiv says it never made one.
North Korea has fired around 150 ballistic missiles at Ukraine, learning from each one. Same missiles threaten Japan, and Kyiv just shows its speaker what is inside them
The components come from a missile Russia fired at Ukraine, and Kyiv's spies argue the same North Korean weapons threaten Japan too.
EU foreign ministers want Russia’s ex-fighters out. Nobody has written down what counts as proof
Each member state would have to judge individual cases, and the bloc set itself a June deadline for the plan that its council still cannot approve.
Reports credit North Korea’s newest missile of terror with 2.5-ton warhead and 900-km range. Expert explains why those numbers can’t both be true
Russia may receive up to 150 North Korean missiles, including the KN-30.
Russia’s North Korean missiles could threaten Kyiv and six other regions, ISW says
Moscow is expected to keep saving ballistic and cruise missiles for periodic mass attacks designed to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses.
Ukraine says Russia can’t replace its losses, plans mass draft after elections—and again in 2027
The claimed call-up comes as Russian battlefield losses overtake contract recruitment, which threatens Moscow’s offensive capabilities.
North Korean ballistic missile kills 7 steelworkers on their way to shelter, shuts down Zaporizhstal plant
The strike comes as Russia expands its use of North Korean KN-23 and KN-24 ballistic missiles, which are harder for Ukraine to intercept and have been linked to deadly attacks on civilians.
Seoul says no again to Ukraine’s weapons request as Pyongyang gets ready to send Russia more troops
South Korea arms NATO members with K2 tanks and K9 howitzers that free up older kit for the front, yet still draws the line at any direct transfer to Kyiv.
Zelenskyy says Russia could receive up to 50,000 North Korean troops
Kyiv says North Korean deployment numbers have grown from hundreds to tens of thousands within roughly two months, according to Ukrainian estimates.
North Korea made $22 billion arming Russia – nearly four times its haul before the war
The war financed a boom that now buys destroyers, warheads, and the freedom to stop talking to Washington.
North Korean missile unit deploys to Russia for ballistic strikes on Ukraine, Kyiv says
Russia is reportedly deploying a North Korean missile unit in western Russia, potentially adding 120 ballistic missiles to an arsenal increasingly used against Ukraine's cities.
The most in any month this year: Russia fired 126 ballistic missiles at Ukraine in July
The count of Iskander-M, North Korean, and repurposed air-defense missiles topped every month since January, a monitoring channel tracking the launches found.
Russia can’t fill its own ranks—so it asks North Korea for 30,000 more soldiers and new missile launchers, Ukraine says
Ukrainian intelligence points to reception sites readied in Voronezh Oblast since June, President Zelenskyy said.
300 defense factories, 500,000 workers: North Korea’s arms industry reaches records amid Russia’s demand for shells in war
North Korea claims current shell production has quadrupled compared to normal levels.
9 May parade Russia held without single tank featured one thing Moscow has never shown before
This is who Russia is now.
Kim Jong Un urges North Korean youth aged 14 to 30 to fight for Russia after losing 6,000 troops in Kursk
At a Pyongyang youth congress, Kim Jong Un cast 14- to 30-year-olds as the "vanguard" of state goals while the ruling party praised dead soldiers in Russia's war as "bombs and flames."
Russia’s close ally now has enough nuclear warheads and delivery systems to breach US missile defense
North Korea, one of the closest allies of Russia, already possesses enough nuclear warheads and delivery systems to…