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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea connected Monday confirmed for nan first clip that it has sent troops to Russia to support its warfare against Ukraine.

U.S., South Korean and Ukraine intelligence officials person said that North Korea past autumn dispatched astir 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia. But North Korea hadn’t confirmed aliases denied its reported unit deployments to Russia until Monday.

In a connection provided to North Korea’s authorities media, nan North’s Central Military Commission of nan ruling Workers’ Party said leader Kim Jong Un had decided to nonstop combat troops to Russia nether a communal defense treaty.

It cited Kim arsenic saying that nan troops’ deployment was meant to “annihilate and swipe retired nan Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and liberate nan Kursk area successful practice pinch nan Russian equipped forces.”

“They who fought for justness are each heroes and representatives of nan grant of nan motherland,” Kim said, according to nan statement.

In February, South Korea’s spy agency said North Korea appears to person sent additional troops to Russia, aft its soldiers deployed connected nan Russian-Ukraine fronts suffered dense casualties.

In January, nan NIS said astir 300 North Korean soldiers had died and different 2,700 had been injured. Zelenskyy earlier put nan number of killed aliases wounded North Koreans astatine 4,000, though U.S. estimates were little astatine astir 1,200.