Moscow, Planning a Pact With Pyongyang, Begins Training North Korean Soldiers in Siberia, Disguising Them as Asian Russians
‘Buryat Battalion’ is readied to appear in arms in Ukraine, Kyiv sources report.
Russia is training in Siberia a battalion of 3,000 North Korean soldiers to fight in Ukraine, multiple Ukrainian sources say. Dubbed “the Buryat Battalion,” the Korean People’s Army soldiers are training in Buryatia, a Russian republic whose Mongolian-ancestry inhabitants share linguistic and cultural affinities with Koreans.
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