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Significant number of North Korean troops headed to the frontline areas, including Kursk, says Seoul
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The Group of Seven has branded Russia<\/a>\u2019s deployment of thousands of North Korean troops<\/a> into its fight with Ukraine<\/a> as a \u201cdesperate effort\u201d to replenish Moscow\u2019s own losses<\/a> as Kyiv<\/a> reports the first combat clashes<\/a> with Pyongyang\u2019s soldiers.
Kyiv confirmed on Monday that they had fired at North Korean soldiers in the Russian region of Kursk<\/a>, which has been partly occupied by Ukraine since August.
Foreign ministers from the G7 described the deployment as a \u201cdangerous expansion of the conflict\u201d, with Monday\u2019s clashes marking the first time a sovereign nation has officially engaged its forces in the conflict.
\u201cThe DPRK\u2019s (North Korea<\/a>) direct support for Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine, besides showing Russia\u2019s desperate efforts to compensate its losses, would mark a dangerous expansion of the conflict,\u201d the ministers said in a statement, which was also signed by South Korea<\/a>, Australia and New Zealand.
The ministers said they condemned \u201cin the strongest possible terms\u201d increased military cooperation between North Korea and Russia, including Russia\u2019s \u201cunlawful procurement\u201d of North Korean ballistic missiles.
They added they were deeply concerned about the potential for any transfer of nuclear or ballistic missile-related technology to North Korea.
US warns Pyongyang\u2019s troops fighting inside Putin\u2019s \u2018meat grinder\u2019 war would be legitimate targets
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Russia\u2019s top diplomat is hosting his North Korean counterpart for talks amid reports that Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to Russia to support its military in the war in Ukraine
An engineer at a factory that makes tanks for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine was jailed for 16 years on Tuesday after being convicted of committing state treason by passing military secrets to Kyiv, weeks after his wife received a similar sentence.
The court in Sverdlovsk region said Danil Mukhametov, who worked at the Uralvagonzavod tank factory, had partially admitted his guilt after being accused of passing unspecified technical military information to Ukraine\u2018s intelligence services.
The court released a photograph of Mukhametov, 32, listening in a glass courtroom cage as the judge read out his sentence, which he will serve in a maximum-security penal colony.
His wife Viktoria, who worked at the same tank factory, Russia\u2019s largest, was handed a 12-1\/2 year sentence last month after being convicted of selling technical blueprints to Ukrainian officials for 100,000 roubles or just over $1,000.
She and her husband were arrested in March 2023 by the FSB security service, which published a video of the arrest. It showed her being asked what they planned to do with the money, to which she replied: \u201cJust to live.\u201d
Located in the city of Nizhny Tagil around 1,400 km (870 miles) east of Moscow, the Uralvagonzavod factory has been sanctioned by the West.
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