North Korean soldiers have been filmed receiving uniforms and equipment at a training ground in Russia’s far east, appearing to confirm reports from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) that 1,

A Ukrainian government official says a video showing dozens of North Korean recruits lining up to collect Russian military fatigues and gear aims to intimidate Ukrainian forces.

Ukrainian officials, including Kyiv's top diplomat, and South Korea's intelligence agency say North Korea is deploying thousands of troops to help Russia with its war against Ukraine.

Ukraine said on Oct. 20 that it attacked Russia's "largest explosives plant" and an airfield overnight, the latest in a series of long-range drone attacks in the rear to slowly grind down the bigger foe's powerful war machine from afar.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 of their soldiers each in the first major prisoner of war return in more than a month, according to statements from authorities in the two nations. Most Read from Bloom

Russia on Friday returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers, Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the biggest repatriation of war dead since Russia's invasion in February 2022. Most of the soldiers were killed in action in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine,