Prominent Russian defense professional and state TV host Igor Korotchenko explained to viewers that North Korea offered “volunteers” to “come and take part in the conflict,” according to New York Post. “If North Korea expresses a desire to meet its international duty to fight against Ukrainian fascism, we should let them,” Korotchenko announced. The television pundit endorsed North Korea’s “rich experience in conducting counter-battery warfare,” the New York Post reported.
North Korea’s alleged offer follows recent reports of heavy Russian losses in the war on Ukraine, according to Reuters. Russia is “growing desperate after losing “tens of thousands of soldiers” and is now using outdated Soviet-era weaponry, U.K. Ministry of Defense stated. Over 75,000 Russians have been killed or injured in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and over 80% of their land forces are “bogged down,” Democratic Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan explained to CNN. Russia is “running out of steam,” proposed British Secret Intelligence Service Chief Richard Moore late last month.
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In exchange for North Korea’s troops, Russia has proposed grain and energy, According to the DailyMail. Further forces would probably be deployed to the separatist eastern republics of Luhansk and Donetsk to bolster Russian forces in the region, the outlet went on. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un joined Russia in recognizing the Russia-supported breakaway states as independent nations, according to the LA Times.
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The claim of North Korean assistance arrives as many Russian satellite states are providing so-called “volunteer” forces, a sign that some Western intelligence analysts have taken as an indication that Vladimir Putin lacks the political capital to order a mass mobilization within Russia.
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Just last month, UK spymaster Richard Moore announced he thought Russia’s war effort was “about to run out of steam.”
“Our assessment is that the Russians will increasingly find it difficult to supply manpower [and] materiel over the next few weeks,” the MI6 chief announced throughout a Q-and-A session at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
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“These are not middle class kids from St. Petersburg or Moscow,” he stated of the troops being sent to the front line against Ukraine.
“These are poor kids from rural parts of Russia, they’re from blue collar towns in Siberia, they are disproportionately from ethnic minorities — these are [Putin’s] cannon fodder.”
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