At a meeting with journalists on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia fears a harsh reaction from China to the issue of attracting military personnel from North Korea to participate in the war against Ukraine,

For more than a year, Russia has been leaning on its increasingly close ally North Korea for supplies of artillery shells and ballistic missiles to prosecute its grinding war in Ukraine. Now, Ukrainian officials are warning that North Korea plans to expand its assistance by dispatching troops.