North Korea is sending its citizens to help Russia's military fight Ukraine, increasing concerns about the alliance between Moscow and the secretive state.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made the announcement in his daily video message on Sunday.
Mr. Zelensky's allegation comes amid an increasingly friendly relationship between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea in June – the first visit of its kind for more than two decades – and Western observers have wondered how heavily North Korea has assisted Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A source in Ukrainian intelligence told CNN last week that a small number of North Koreans have been working with the Russian military, mostly to help with engineering and to exchange information on the use of North Korean ammunition.
The source said some of them were recently killed in eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin has dismissed allegations that North Korean personnel had been sent to help Russia as another hoax.
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