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50,000 Russian and North Korean Troops Mass Ahead of Attack, U.S. Says
NY Times ^ | 11/10/2024 | By Julian E. BarnesEric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz

Posted on 11/10/2024 6:04:44 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Ukrainian officials expect a counteroffensive in western Russia to begin in the coming days as North Korea’s troops train with Russian forces.

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The Russian military has assembled a force of 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, as it prepares to begin an assault aimed at reclaiming territory seized by Ukraine in the Kursk region of Russia, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.

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North Korea has sent more than 10,000 troops to fight with Russia in Kursk, American officials say. The troops are wearing Russian uniforms and have been equipped by Moscow, but they will probably fight in their own discrete units, U.S. defense officials said.

Ukrainian officials said Moscow had supplied the North Korean forces with machine guns, sniper rifles, antitank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.

Russia has been training the North Koreans in artillery fire, basic infantry tactics and, critically, trench clearing, American officials said. That training suggests that at least some of the North Korean forces will be involved in frontal assaults on Ukraine’s dug-in defensive positions.

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A Ukrainian official said the North Korean forces had been divided into two groups, an assault unit and a support unit, which will help provide security inside the territory recaptured from Ukrainian forces.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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1 posted on 11/10/2024 6:04:44 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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2 posted on 11/10/2024 6:08:24 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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Excerpts from the “snip” from the New York Times —
“U.S. Says”, “...according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials”, “American officials say”, “U.S. defense officials said”, and a “Ukrainian official.”

3 posted on 11/10/2024 6:11:31 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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They should just call a truce and wait for Trump to help them negotiate a peace deal. Ukraine is a wreck that is depending on foreign support, and the Russians are likely disappointed in the poor performance of their military and just want to be done with this.

Now that the MIC has been ousted (for the time being), not one more life needs to be wasted on making them richer.

4 posted on 11/10/2024 6:21:15 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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Putin’s deadline to retake Kursk is right before Trump’s inauguration.


5 posted on 11/10/2024 6:23:34 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Putin’s deadline to retake Kursk is right before Trump’s inauguration.

Now, that's really funny!

6 posted on 11/10/2024 6:26:01 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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Putin’s deadline to retake Kursk is right before Trump’s inauguration.

It may be the last major battle before the ceasefire in early 2025.

7 posted on 11/10/2024 6:28:50 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Ukraine keeps shrinking, what’s up with that?


9 posted on 11/10/2024 6:30:03 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "Murica!")
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You're right of course, but he'll get Kursk back in a peace deal anyway. He'll only make himself look weak if he tries and fails.

Not that it would be a bad thing.

10 posted on 11/10/2024 6:31:03 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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OIP-23
11 posted on 11/10/2024 6:31:17 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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Ukraine just needs to transmit internet nudes to the Norks, combined with pictures of hot food. There will be thousands iof defections.


12 posted on 11/10/2024 6:33:49 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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Putin meat assaults not stronk.


13 posted on 11/10/2024 6:35:00 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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Given the source, I have no idea if there’s any truth in this article.


14 posted on 11/10/2024 6:35:11 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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YOUR SPAM DAYS ARE NUMBERED !!!


15 posted on 11/10/2024 6:37:38 AM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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Again, Zelenskyy & you wanted war. This is what war looks like. Should have listened to us, and instead of war looked for diplomatic solutions to the problems that Ukraine, U.K., and U.S. definitely played a huge role in fomenting the problems that created this cluster-you-know-what.


16 posted on 11/10/2024 6:40:28 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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A few hours of training on weapons they’ve never see might help ,LOL


17 posted on 11/10/2024 6:40:32 AM PST by butlerweave
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18 posted on 11/10/2024 6:43:31 AM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

My sources are telling me stuff so I made up this story.


19 posted on 11/10/2024 6:49:07 AM PST by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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Sadly enough thousands and thousands of Russians will die... It’s too bad... BTW - Who started this war??? Who invaded the Crimea? Who invaded the Ukraine? This is the cost of those mistakes, and the man who made them should be replaced.


20 posted on 11/10/2024 6:49:34 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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