Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo, also noted that North Korean troops remain in combat zones, but are not yet actively fighting.
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00:00Russia intends to supply North Korea with fighter jets amid growing military partnership
00:09between the two countries, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command commander Admiral
00:15Samuel Papara.
00:16Now, he said that Pyongyang would get that in exchange for North Korea deploying troops
00:21to Russia to support its war against Ukraine.
00:25The Institute for the Study of War says Papara noted that North Korean soldiers remain in
00:30combat zones, likely in reference to the region of Kursk, but are not yet actively fighting.
00:38Analysts from the crowd-sourced monitoring website DeepStateMap reported on the 10th
00:42of December that Russian forces had advanced in Sumy, a region near the border village
00:47of Oleksandriya.
00:48DeepState is a mapping project, independent but with close ties to Ukraine's defense
00:54ministry, widely respected and trusted as one of the most reliable sources of accurate
00:59information on territorial changes along the front line.
01:03The map changes showed Russian forces occupying around 2 square kilometers in Sumy and advancing
01:09in the region of Kursk.
01:11Sumy region authorities, including the head of the military administration Volodymyr Artyukh,
01:16rejected the reports that Russian forces had breached the border, calling it, quote, fake
01:22and describing them as disinformation.
01:25The Institute for the Study of War has not observed any evidence of Russian forces operating
01:31in or near Oleksandriya, but it does confirm that Russian forces recently advanced in the
01:37main Ukrainian salient in Kursk region amid continuing fighting in this border area.