‘North Korea causes major escalation in Ukraine’
Ukraine's foreign minister says the deployment of North Korean troops alongside the Russians in Ukraine could cause a further escalation of the conflict.
Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, could not confirm whether North Korea is effectively sending troops to Russia to help the Russians in the conflict in Ukraine. Andriy Sybiga, Ukraine's foreign minister, also said that North Korean troops on the Russian side posed a ‘huge threat of further escalation’. According to him, the war would then ‘threaten to go beyond the current borders and boundaries’.
‘It makes it clear that this conflict is spreading to other regions of the world in terms of its reach,’ German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius reported at the G7 meeting in Naples.
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