{"id":1111483,"date":"2026-07-26T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1111483\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:55:17","slug":"russia-wants-30000-more-north-korean-troops-for-ukraine-war-zelenskyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1111483\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia wants 30,000 more North Korean troops for Ukraine war: Zelenskyy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia hopes to bring in an additional 30,000 North Korean troops to help fight in Moscow\u2019s war against Kyiv, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said \u2014 in a potentially dramatic expansion of Pyongyang\u2019s role in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is thought to have sent around 20,000 combat troops and military engineers to Russia\u2019s Kursk region in 2024 to beat back an incursion by Ukrainian forces, with an estimated 14,000 currently deployed on the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia wants to receive another 30,000 troops from North Korea. Since June, preparations have been under way in Russia\u2019s Voronezh region to receive them,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a nightly address on Saturday without offering a source for this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia hopes to bring in an additional 30,000 North Korean troops to help fight in Moscow\u2019s war against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1111484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2595,2598,6660,332,7661,657,2601],"class_list":["post-1111483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-drones","tag-missiles","tag-north-korea","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116983793351035784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}