Ukraine war briefing: First clash with North Korean troops, Ukrainian officials say | Ukraine

North Korean troops in Russia have come under Ukrainian fire, a Kiev official said on Tuesday. “The first North Korean troops have already been fired upon in the Kursk region,” said Andrii Kovalenko, a member of Ukraine’s Security Council. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov also said in an interview with South Korean television that he understood that the first “small skirmish” with the North Koreans had occurred. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the first skirmishes between the Ukrainian military and North Korean troops “open a new page of instability in the world.”