Ukrainian president calls on countries to step in before troops sent to Russia by Pyongyang reach battlefield

Ukrainian president calls on countries to step in before troops sent to Russia by Pyongyang reach battlefield

Ukraine’s president urged allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, while the army chief said his troops were facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the full-scale war began.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy raised the prospect of a pre-emptive Ukrainian strike on camps where the North Korean troops are being trained and said Kyiv knows their location. But he said Ukraine can’t do it without permission from allies to use western-made long-range weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia.

“But instead … America is watching, Britain is watching, Germany is watching. Everyone is just waiting for the North Korean military to start attacking Ukrainians as well,” Zelenskyy said in a post late on Friday on the Telegram messaging app.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    18 days ago

    ? I was told right here on Lemmy that the NK soldiers are functionally useless, tactically inept, slowing down the Russian troops, have never seen anything with a transistor before, and are supplying shells with 80% misfire rates?

    What part of “Let us stop the North Korean troops before they see the battlefield” contradicts that?

    Or are you just looking to simp for fascists, as usual?

    • skye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      If they were so inept as it’s said, Ukraine wouldn’t perceive them as this big of a ‘Help us ASAP stop them from reaching’ threat.

      And since when is recognising the military power of an army simping for fascism?

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        17 days ago

        If they were so inept as it’s said, Ukraine wouldn’t perceive them as this big of a ‘Help us ASAP stop them from reaching’ threat.

        10,000 warm bodies is 10,000 warm bodies. Or have you forgotten how Storm-Z units went?

        And since when is recognising the military power of an army simping for fascism?

        When it’s oriented around dismissal of the flaws of a military because it’s one of the commenter’s favorite fascist regimes? MLs are pretty predictable.