MADRID 20 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The commander of the Airborne Forces, Igor Skibyuk, has assured that the thousand North Korean soldiers deployed in the Russian province of Kursk are not a cause for concern since about a thousand Russian soldiers are “destroyed every day.”
“We feel quite safe in the Kursk region,” Skibyuk said on Ukrainian television. “When our counterattack begins, we will see how much they are worth. They are only another 10,000 soldiers, and I do not expect anything dangerous from them,” he said.
Skibyuk has highlighted that Ukrainian troops are killing about a thousand Russian soldiers “every day”, so the deployment of 10,000 North Korean troops only represents a “conditional addition of ten more days.”
Skibyuk’s statements contrast with the statements of other Ukrainian authorities, who have been warning of the danger of the presence of these troops who, according to the Intelligence services of Washington and Seoul, have already participated in some “small-scale” skirmishes.
The day before, the Ukrainian president himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, predicted that the detachment could increase to 10,000 troops.