UN Secretary General António Guterres has expressed concern about the potential deployment of North Korean soldiers in the Ukraine conflict. "The Secretary-General is very concerned about reports of troops from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea being sent to the Russian Federation,

Ukrainian troops have for the first time engaged with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor, Ukraine's defense minister said Tuesday. Another Kyiv official said Ukraine's army fired artillery at North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk border region.

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres is “very concerned” about reports of North Korean troops on Russia’s soil and fears the “escalation of the war in Ukraine ”, his spokesperson said. Mr Guterres’s remarks come as the US intelligence confirmed thousands of North Korean troops are already on their way to Russia ’s Kursk border region where Ukraine’s incursion is underway.