The US Department of Defense has no data to indicate that North Korean soldiers are present in the occupied Ukrainian territories or are heading there, BTA reported.
This was stated yesterday at a briefing by the deputy spokeswoman of the Pentagon, Sabrina Singh, quoted by a correspondent of the Ukrinform agency.
“There are no signs that there are North Korean soldiers in Ukraine,” the spokeswoman said in response to a journalist's question.
She noted that the Pentagon could confirm the presence of North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine. According to her, no movement of North Korean troops on Ukrainian territory has been detected.
Kiev's air defenses reflect a massive drone attack, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said in the early hours of today, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
“The drone attack against the capital continues”, Klitschko wrote in “Telegram” and added: “Air defense works in different districts of the city. The drones attack from different directions.
Eyewitnesses told Reuters they heard a series of explosions in the city.
An air alert has been declared in Kiev and on a larger part of the territory of Ukraine. In the capital, air raid sirens went off around 9:00 p.m. local time (and Bulgarian).
Meanwhile, the governor of Russia's Rostov region, Yury Slyusar, announced that Russian air defense reflected a Ukrainian air attack on the region and that four drones were shot down, TASS reported.
„Since midnight in the Rostov region, the anti-aircraft defense forces reflected an air attack of the enemy. To date, four drones have been destroyed: in the region of Novoshakhtinsk, Taganrog, Kamensk and Zernograd. There are no reports of casualties or damage, the governor wrote in Telegram.