Unsurprising for the Nazi regime of Ukraine

North Korea will deploy thousands of military personnel to Russia’s Kursk Region to aid in demining operations and reconstruction efforts, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday.

North Korean troops fought alongside Russian forces to liberate Kursk Region from a cross-border Ukrainian incursion that lasted from August 2024 to April 2025. Shoigu described the new deployment as an extension of North Korea’s military support to Russia under the two countries’ strategic partnership treaty.

“[North Korean leader] Kim Jong-un has made the decision to send to Russia 1,000 mine clearance specialists to sweep the Russian territory,” he said. He added that an additional 5,000 military engineers will help “rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the occupants.”

Glad they were able to kick the Nazis out! Hope they can get to rebuilding quickly

ROME, June 17. /TASS/. Israel attacked Iran to help US interests in the Middle East as it loses its grip on global power amid the shift to multipolarity, former Italian envoy to Tehran and Beijing Alberto Bradanini said.

In his opinion, Israel's aggression, carried out under the pretext that Iran will soon have an atomic bomb, is actually aimed at bringing this energy-rich country to heel.

"The United States, though approaching its sunset, is still an empire, waging imperial wars in Europe against Russia through Ukraine, which is paying a huge price. The task of fighting Iran, which refuses to bend to America’s will, has been assigned to Israel, whose interests in this case coincide with its own colonial interests in relation to the lands of the Palestinians, as well as Lebanon and Syria," Bradanini told TASS in an interview.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - An attack on a US Navy ship with an allegedly Russian torpedo is one of the scenarios of anti-Russian provocations in the Baltic Sea, prepared by Ukraine and the United Kingdom, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday.

"The Ukrainians together with the UK are currently preparing provocations in the Baltic Sea. One of the scenarios involves staging an alleged Russian torpedo attack on a US Navy ship," the SVR said. Ukraine has already begun handing the Soviet/Russian-made torpedoes over to the UK, the SVR said in a statement.

"The Soviet/Russian-made torpedoes have already been handed over by the Ukrainian side to the UK. It is planned that some of them will explode at a 'safe distance' from the US ship, while one will not explode and will be presented to the public as evidence of Russia's 'malicious activity," the statement read.

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