A South Korean news report says that North Korea is planning to send as many as 500 troops and police to the Donbas region of Ukraine to help as workers.
But this plan is different than what North Korea had previously committed to doing for Russia — sending laborers. Apparently the dumpster fire that is the Russian occupation is just too much for even North Korea.
Police and military will be sent instead. What they’ll be doing isn’t exactly clear.
Less than a week after North Korea promised to “always stand in the same trench” with Russia, it seems even Pyongyang is losing faith in Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
After promising last November to help Russia rebuild bombed out parts of occupied eastern Ukraine, North Korean authorities picked out laborers to send and then even recruited some more—but they have now thought better of sending them, according to Daily NK.
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Instead, Pyongyang has reportedly decided to appease Russia by sending military and security personnel to eastern Ukraine. A source cited by Daily NK on Thursday said the North Korean government on Jan. 20 ordered several of its trading companies located in Russia to pick out personnel to be sent to the occupied territories.
Between 300 and 500 Korean men aged 19 to 27 are expected to be tossed into eastern Ukraine, though the tasks they will be assigned are not entirely clear.
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Russia’s killer robot (i.e. unmanned ground vehicle) called Marker has allegedly arrived in Ukraine. Let’s see how long it lasts.
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Ukraine is easily now the most heavily mined country in the world.
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Now there’s only 11.
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Help from Israel should have come a long time ago, but better late than never. And assuming it was Israel that attacked Iran, those strikes on weapon production facilities will help Ukraine too.
The photo Twitter says is potentially sensitive is just a photo of Netanyahu.
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And even Switzerland is now trying to find a way to help the effort to send tanks to Ukraine.
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Gratuitous cat video.
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And a gratuitous video of cooking borscht.