The Ukrainian president described the potential deployment of North Korean troops as "the first step to a world war".

South Korea's Ministry of Defence believes that North Korea is likely to send some of its regular armed forces to the battlefield in Ukraine in support of Russia. Source: South Korean news agency Yonhap,

A Russian dissident Telegram channel claimed that six North Korean officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike in Donetsk, a claim boosted by a Ukrainian official. He said the soldiers “did not directly participate in combat, but they were military personnel already integrated.”