A monument to the troops who assisted Russia in repelling the Ukrainian incursion will be erected
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has thanked the North Korean troops who helped liberate Russia’s Kursk Region earlier this year from a cross-border incursion by Ukraine.
Kiev’s forces captured some of the border areas in Kursk Region last August before being gradually pushed back. Russia fully liberated the territory this past April. The Defense Ministry in Moscow estimated that Ukraine sustained more than 76,000 casualties in its failed incursion.
During a meeting with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui at the Wonsan Kalma resort on Saturday, Lavrov stressed that “the heroic soldiers of the the Korean People’s Army together with the Russian servicemen brought closer the liberation of Kursk Region with the cost of their blood and even their lives.”
The minister expanded on the issue during a press conference with Russian journalists later in the day, saying that Moscow again thanked Pyongyang for its contribution to freeing the area from “the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries.”