North Korea has treated hundreds of Russian soldiers injured in Ukraine, Moscow’s ambassador to Pyongyang told state media, as he revealed new details of the reclusive state’s backing for the Kremlin’s war effort.

The Russian soldiers would be treated in North Korean medical facilities, said Matsegora, Moscow's longtime diplomat to Pyongyang.

VLADIMIR Putin is sending troops into battle on crutches — as more than 1,000 of his soldiers are killed every day. Russia’s January casualty rate hit 48,000 dead, wounded or missing. Vlad pal Kim

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a strategic partnership agreement pledging cooperation across multiple sectors. Pyongyang had already been supplying Moscow with weapons for its war in Ukraine,

Russian soldiers wounded in the war in Ukraine undergo treatment and rehabilitation in North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, Russia's ambassador to North Korea, said in an interview with the Russian state-controlled media outlet Rossiyskaya Gazeta published on Feb.

Drones struck the Saratov Oil Refinery in Russia’s Saratov Oblast on the morning of 11 February, causing damage and a fire. Source: Saratov Oblast Governor Roman Busargin; Russian Telegram channels; Andrii Kovalenko,

Hundreds of Russian soldiers injured in the Ukraine war are being treated in North Korea, according to Alexander Matsegora, Russia’s ambassador to North Korea.

Russia's war in Ukraine has turned into a brutal war of attrition, claiming thousands of lives among both regular and allied forces. Recently, elite North Korean units became the latest to suffer catastrophic losses in this grinding conflict.