North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it deployed troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine, claiming the country’s military had helped Moscow retake control of the border region of Kursk.

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked North Korean troops for fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region. In a statement released by the Kremlin on Monday morning, Putin hailed “heroism,

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces denied Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim over the weekend that Russian forces had fully retaken the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an offensive last year.